| Description |
xiii, 448 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Witch trials in mediaeval Europe / Richard Kieckhefer -- The demonization of mediaeval heretics / Norman Cohn -- The experience of bewitchment / Robin Briggs -- Weather, hunger and fear : origins of the European witch-hunts in climate, society and mentality / Wolfgang Behringer -- The sociology of Jura witchcraft / E. William Monter -- Witchcraft narratives and folklore motifs in southern Italy / Davide Gentilcore -- Heartland of the witchcraze / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- Deciphering the witches' sabbat / Carlo Ginzburg. |
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The alternative world of the witches' sabbat / Éva Pócs -- Satanic myths and cultural realities / Robert Muchembled -- Inversion, misrule and the meaning of witchcraft / Stuart Clark -- Protestant witchcraft, Catholic witchcraft / Stuart Clark -- Confessional identity and magic in the late sixteenth century : Jakob Bithner and witchcraft in Styria / Edmund Kern -- Between the devil and the inquisitor : Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs / Gary K. Waite -- The crime of witchcraft in early modern Europe / Christina Larner. |
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State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe / Brian Levack -- The devil in Renaissance France / David Nicholls -- The devil and the German people / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- A divine apparition or demonic possession? / Moshe Sluhovsky -- Was witch-hunting woman-hunting? / Christina Larner -- Patriarchal reconstruction and witch-hunting / Marianne Hester -- Women, witchcraft and the legal process / Jim Sharpe -- Women : witches and witnesses / Clive Holmes -- Oedipus and the devil / Lyndal Roper. |
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Witchcraft and power in early modern England : the case of Margaret Moore / Malcolm Gaskill -- Witches, wives and mothers : witchcraft persecution and women's confessions in seventeenth-century England / Louise Jackson -- The end of witch trials / Brian Levack -- The decline of witches and the rise of vampires / Gábor Klaniczay -- Urbanization and the decline of witchcraft : an examination of London / Owen Davies -- Occult survivors : the making of a myth / Philip Jenkins and Daniel Maier-Katkin -- The wish not to know / Patrick Casement. |
| Summary |
Offering a selection of historical writing on witchcraft, this text explores how belief in witchcraft began and the social and cultural context in which this belief flourished. A range of historical perspectives is collected here. |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- History.
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Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
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Hekserij.
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Hexerei.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Oldridge, Darren, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0415214920 |
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9780415214926 |
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0415214939 (paperback) |
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9780415214933 (paperback) |
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