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Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217071
Topics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1313537939
Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra,Brian P. Levack,Roy Porter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485891058
The end of the 18th century saw the end of witch trials. This volume charts the processes and reasons for decriminalizing witchcraft. It also surveys the social role of witchcraft in European communities to the end of the 19th century.
Author : Willem de Blecourt,Ronald Hutton,Jean La Fontaine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0485890062
Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Demonology
ISBN : 0812236157
Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485890051
The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers>
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050147415
The six-volume set Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, of which this volume is the fifth, provides a scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present. Contributors combine political, legal, and social historical approaches with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. With the end of witch trials in the 18th century, the writers chart the process of and reasons for the decriminalization of witchcraft, but also challenge the widespread assumption that Europe became "disenchanted." Presented here are surveys of the social role of witchcraft, as well as a full treatment Victorian supernaturalism and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers. Three authors contribute three extensive articles: "The Decline and End of Witchcraft Prosecutions" by Brain P. Levack (U. of Texas); "Witchcraft After the Witch-Trials" by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra (U. of Amsterdam); and "Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment, Romantic and Liberal Thought" by Roy Porter (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217055
Topics include binding spells, curse tablets, and the demonization of magic and sorcery by Christianity.
Author : Diane Purkiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134882380
'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
Author : Bengt Ankerloo,Stuart Clark,William Monter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441127433
The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217063
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 : Owen Davies,Willem De Blécourt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0719066603
Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. While witchcraft prosecutions were comparatively rare by the mid-eighteenth century, the intellectual debate did no disappear; it either became more private or refocused on such issues as possession. The contributors come from different academic disciplines, and by borrowing from literary theory, archaeology and folklore they move beyond the usual historical perspectives and sources. They emphasise the importance of studying such themes as the aftermath of witch trials, the continued role of cunning-folk in society, and the nature of the witchcraft discourse in different social contexts. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the decline of the European witch trials and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic during the Enlightenment. More generally it will appeal to those with a lively interest in the cultural history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first of a two-volume set of books looking at the phenomenon of witchcraft, magic and the occult in Europe since the seventeenth century.
Author : Frederick H. Cryer,Marie-Louise Thomsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567323378
The oldest roots of the European concepts of witchcraft and magic lie in the Hebrew and other cultures of the ancient Near East and in the Celtic, Nordic and Germanic Societies of the North and West. The authors of this volume survey three crucial aspects of this earliest phase of development. These are the role of magical incantations and rituals against witchcraft in Mesopotamia in the last three millennia BC, the attitudes to witchcraft and magic in the Old Testament and in later Jewish tradition, and the beliefs and legends associated with trolldomor (witchcraft) in pre-Christian Scandanavia.
Author : Thomas Waters
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300249453
The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present dayCursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed – dark supernatural forces.Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-rich West Country, from the immense territories of the British Empire to metropolitan London. We learn why magic caters to deep-seated human needs but see how it can also be abused, and discover how witchcraft survives by evolving and changing. Along the way, we examine an array of remarkable beliefs and rituals, from traditional folk magic to diverse spiritualities originating in Africa and Asia.This is a tale of cynical quacks and sincere magical healers, depressed people and furious vigilantes, innocent victims and rogues who claimed to possess evil abilities. Their spellbinding stories raise important questions about the state’s role in regulating radical spiritualities, the fragility of secularism and the true nature of magic.
Author : Alan Charles Kors,Edward Peters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217519
A thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.