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Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark,E. William Monter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 081221787X
A compact survey of the European witch craze of the early modern period—a craze that later spilled over to America.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136538551
Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.
Author : Lara Apps,Andrew Gow
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0719057094
This book critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. It shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition, and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalization of male witches by feminist and other historians.
Author : Jonathan Barry,Marianne Hester,Gareth Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521638755
An up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft.
Author : Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520320581
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author : Joseph Klaits
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987-02-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780253013323
How the persecution of witches reflected the darker side of the central social, political, and cultural developments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is the first book to consider the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since H.R. Trevor-Roper’s classic and pioneering study appeared some fifteen years ago. Drawing upon the advances in historical and social-science scholarship of the past decade and a half, Joseph Klaits integrates the recent appreciations of witchcraft in regional studies, the history of popular culture, anthropology, sociology, and psychology to better illuminate the place of witch hunting in the context of social, political, economic and religious change. “In all, Klaits has done a good job. Avoiding the scandalous and sensational, he has maintained throughout, with sensitivity and economy, an awareness of the uniqueness of the theories and persecutions that have fascinated scholars now for two decades and are unlikely to lose their appeal in the foreseeable future.” —American Historical Review “This is a commendable synthesis whose time has come . . . fascinating.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal “Comprehensive and clearly written . . . An excellent book.” —Choice “Impeccable research and interpretation stand behind this scholarly but not stultifying account.” —Booklist “A good, solid, general treatment.” —Erik Midelfort, C. Julian Bishko Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies, University of Virginia “A well written, easy to read book, and the bibliography is a good source of secondary materials for further reading.” —Journal of American Folklore
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875598
Between 1450 and 1750 thousands of people – most of them women – were accused, prosecuted and executed for the crime of witchcraft. The witch-hunt was not a single event; it comprised thousands of individual prosecutions, each shaped by the religious and social dimensions of the particular area as well as political and legal factors. Brian Levack sorts through the proliferation of theories to provide a coherent introduction to the subject, as well as contributing to the scholarly debate. The book: Examines why witchcraft prosecutions took place, how many trials and victims there were, and why witch-hunting eventually came to an end. Explores the beliefs of both educated and illiterate people regarding witchcraft. Uses regional and local studies to give a more detailed analysis of the chronological and geographical distribution of witch-trials. Emphasises the legal context of witchcraft prosecutions. Illuminates the social, economic and political history of early modern Europe, and in particular the position of women within it. In this fully updated third edition of his exceptional study, Levack incorporates the vast amount of literature that has emerged since the last edition. He substantially extends his consideration of the decline of the witch-hunt and goes further in his exploration of witch-hunting after the trials, especially in contemporary Africa. New illustrations vividly depict beliefs about witchcraft in early modern Europe.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0582491231
This 2nd edition takes account of the large volume of literature on the history of witchcraft that has appeared during the past decade. Includes new material on various aspects of witchcraft from the Middle Ages through to the 17th century.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815336683
Author : Bengt Ankarloo,Gustav Henningsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015018466097
The history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, but until now studies have been largely from the Anglo-Saxon perspective. This book shows how that approach has blurred our understanding and definition of the issues involved, and, taking into account major new developments in the historiography of witchcraft, aims to end the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on witchcraft studies.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Demoniac possession
ISBN : PSU:000033593845
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : A. Rowlands
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230248373
Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.
Author : Lois Martin
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781843447962
Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon. It examines in detail the growth of the ideological, cultural and legal concepts that eventually led to the carnage of the Witch Craze in the 16th and 17th centuries, which, it is estimated, may have claimed the lives of around 40,000 people. For both Medieval and Reformation scholars alike the Devil and all his works were a very real threat. Their conviction that witches were the servants of Satan led to the formation of perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time: a belief that witches were working in league with the Devil in a diabolical plot against all Christendom. Witches were transformed from poor deluded old women who rode out at night with the pagan goddess Diana into devil-worshipping heretics who became the focus of a centuries-long, Europe-wide campaign determined to seek out and destroy this evil wherever it was to be found, regardless of whether any of its victims were actually guilty or not.
Author : Stuart Clark,William Monter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485890044
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 : Jonathan Barry,Owen Davies,Cornelie Usborne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319637846
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.