Cultures Of Witchcraft In Europe From The Middle Ages To The Present

Author : Jonathan Barry,Owen Davies,Cornelie Usborne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319637846

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Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present by Jonathan Barry,Owen Davies,Cornelie Usborne Pdf

This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists who have collaborated closely with De Blécourt. Essays pick up some or all of the themes and approaches he pioneered, and apply them to cases which range in time and space across all the main regions of Europe since the thirteenth century until the present day. While some draw heavily on texts, others on archival sources, and others on field research, they all share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels, respecting the many varieties and ambiguities in such meanings and experiences and resisting attempts to reduce them to master narratives or simple causal models. The chapter 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660-1832' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217861

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3 by Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark Pdf

During the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into everyday culture, including the rituals of the Church. The rise of the practice of "white magic" in the twelfth century became so popular that it caused a widespread determination in the Church to condemn any unsanctioned beliefs or practices. The Church and state, both centralized powers in a decentralized Europe, gradually sharpened their attitude toward magic in general, and sorcery and witchcraft in particular, paving the way for the violent outbreaks of witch persecutions in early modern Europe. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each volume of this ambitious six-volume series contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region.

Author : Jonathan Barry,Marianne Hester,Gareth Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521638755

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Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Jonathan Barry,Marianne Hester,Gareth Roberts Pdf

An up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft.

Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217055

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 2 by Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000 The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histories and images. The six volumes in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combine traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with critical syntheses of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each volume contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region. The chronological scope of this volume ranges from the heroic age of Homer's Greek East to the time of the rise of Christianity, a period of well over a thousand years. In this long millennium the political and cultural landscapes of the Mediterranean basin underwent significant changes, as competing creeds and denominations rose to the fore, and often accused each other of sorcery. Other volumes in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies The Middle Ages The Period of the Witch Trials The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Twentieth Century

Author : Alan Charles Kors,Edward Peters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217519

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Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700 by Alan Charles Kors,Edward Peters Pdf

A thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.

Author : Karen Louise Jolly,Edward Peters,Catharina Raudvere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0812236165

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe by Karen Louise Jolly,Edward Peters,Catharina Raudvere Pdf

The series Witchcraft and Magic In Europe, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each volume contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region.

Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217063

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5 by Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark Pdf

The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histories and images. A series that combines traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with critical syntheses of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each of the six volumes in the series contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region. The eighteenth century saw the end of witch trials everywhere. The authors chart the process of and reasons for the decriminalization of witchcraft, but also challenge the widespread assumption that Europe then became "disenchanted." Here for the first time are surveys of the social role of witchcraft in European communities, as well as a full treatment of Victorian supernaturalism and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers. Other volumes in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome The Twentieth Century Biblical and Pagan Societies The Middle Ages The Period of the Witch Trials

Author : Louise Nyholm Kallestrup,Raisa Maria Toivo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319323855

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Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup,Raisa Maria Toivo Pdf

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer picture of what ‘went before’, as well as what ‘came after’. Thus the volume demonstrates continuity as well as change in the concepts and understandings of magic, heresy and witchcraft. In addition, the geographical pattern of similarities and diversities suggests a comparative approach, transcending confessional as well as national borders. Throughout the medieval and early modern period, the orthodoxy of the Christian Church was continuously contested. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650. Neither contesters nor followers of orthodoxy were homogeneous groups or fractions. They themselves and their ideas changed from one century to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within a common framework of interpretation. This collection of essays focuses on this complex.

Author : Marina Montesano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319920788

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Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Marina Montesano Pdf

This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenced them. Still, the role of humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of witches’ powers.

Author : Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258060035

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Witchcraft by Geoffrey Parrinder Pdf

Author : Martha Rampton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442634206

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European Magic and Witchcraft by Martha Rampton Pdf

Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically, Rampton demonstrates how understandings of and reactions toward magic changed and developed over time, and how these ideas were influenced by various factors such as religion, science, and law. The wide-ranging texts emphasize social history and include early Merovingian law codes, the Picatrix, Lombard's Sentences, The Golden Legend, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. By presenting a full spectrum of source types including hagiography, law codes, literature, and handbooks, this collection provides readers with a broad view of how magic was understood through the medieval and early modern eras. Rampton's introduction to the volume is a passionate appeal to students to use tolerance, imagination, and empathy when travelling back in time. The introductions to individual readings are deliberately minimal, providing just enough context so that students can hear medieval voices for themselves.

Author : Robin Briggs
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018358569

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Witches & Neighbors by Robin Briggs Pdf

About the social and cultural aspects of witchcraft in Europe, especially during the Middle Ages.

Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300231243

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The Witch by Ronald Hutton Pdf

This “magisterial account” explores the fear of witchcraft across the globe from the ancient world to the notorious witch trials of early modern Europe (The Guardian, UK). The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In The Witch, historian Ronald Hutton sets the European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft. Hutton, a renowned expert on ancient, medieval, and modern paganism and witchcraft beliefs, combines Anglo-American and continental scholarly approaches to examine attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of suspected witches across the world, including in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Australia, and the Americas, and from ancient pagan times to current interpretations. His fresh anthropological and ethnographical approach focuses on cultural inheritance and change while considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, and how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated. “[A] panoptic, penetrating book.”—Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of Books

Author : Michael David Bailey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742533875

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Magic and Superstition in Europe by Michael David Bailey Pdf

The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic and superstition in Europe from antiquity to the present. Focusing mainly on the medieval and early modern era, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems_particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca_from Europe to the United States. He explains how magic was understood, constructed, and frequently condemned and how magical beliefs and practices have changed over time yet also remain vital even today.

Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501720314

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Witchcraft in the Middle Ages by Jeffrey Burton Russell Pdf

All the known theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century are brilliantly set forth in this engaging and comprehensive history. Building on a foundation of newly discovered primary sources and recent secondary interpretations, Jeffrey Burton Russell first establishes the facts and then explains the phenomenon of witchcraft in terms of its social and religious environment, particularly in relation to medieval heresies. Russell treats European witchcraft as a product of Christianity, grounded in heresy more than in the magic and sorcery that have existed in other societies. Skillfully blending narration with analysis, he shows how social and religious changes nourished the spread of witchcraft until large portions of medieval Europe were in its grip, "from the most illiterate peasant to the most skilled philosopher or scientist." A significant chapter in the history of ideas and their repression is illuminated by this book. Our enduring fascination with the occult gives the author's affirmation that witchcraft arises at times and in areas afflicted with social tensions a special quality of immediacy.