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edited by Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, and Gareth RobertsPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press1996Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BF1566 .W738 1996 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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This important new collection of essays offers a wide readership both an up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft and an indication of the direction of new research. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "This important collection of essays brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material."- -BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. Introduction: Keith Thomas and the problem of witchcraft / Jonathan Barry
- 2. ‘Many reasons why’: witchcraft and the problem of multiple explanation / Robin Briggs
- 3. Witchcraft studies in Austria, Germany and Switzerland / Wolfgang Behringer
- 4. State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe / Brian P. Levack
- 5. The devil’s encounter with America / Fernando Cervantes
- 6. ‘Saints or sorcerers’: Quakerism, demonology and the decline of witchcraft in seventeenth-century England / Peter Elmer
- 7. The descendants of Circe: witches and Renaissance fictions / Gareth Roberts
- 8. Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany / Lyndal Roper
- 9. The devil in East Anglia: the Matthew Hopkins trials reconsidered / Jim Sharpe
- 10. Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the background to accusations / Malcolm Gaskill
- 11. Patriarchal reconstruction and witch hunting / Marianne Hester
- 12. Witchcraft repealed / Ian Bostridge
- 13. On the continuation of witchcraft / Willem De Blecourt
ISBN
- 0521638755
- 0521552249
- 9780521638753
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