History A-Level
Royal influence and intellectual justification
What Royal influence and intellectual justification means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Royal influence and intellectual justification
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King James VI took a personal interest after the North Berwick plot, and his Daemonologie gave intellectual authority to the belief that witches were a real and dangerous threat.
Topics that use Royal influence and intellectual justification
- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 1 The North Berwick witches in Scotland, 1590–91 and the aftermath to 1597 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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