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John Putnam Demos
John Putnam Demos
John Putnam Demos is an American author and historian. He has written two books which discuss witch-hunts and has discovered that one of his own ancestors was John Putnam Senior, ancestor of the Putnam family which was prominent in the Salem witch trials.[1] Demos was awarded the prestigous Bancroft Prize for his book Entertaining Satan. He retired in December 2008 as the Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University, USA. [2] Demos lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts and is currently working on a new book.
Works
• Entertaining Satan - Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, Oxford University Press, London, 1982 ISBN 0-19-503378-7 • A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony • The Unredeemed Captive • The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of WitchHunting in the Western World
References
[1] "Spellbound" -Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan. 2009 [2] Entertaining the Devil in Connecticut New York Times
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