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Author : Alan Charles Kors,Edward Peters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217519
A thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.
Author : Alan Charles Kors,Edward Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : OCLC:164633681
Author : Lara Apps,Andrew Gow
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Robert Thurston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317865018
Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a ‘persecuting society’ in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved, with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torture.
Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415214939
The excellent reader offers a selection of the best historical writing on witchcraft, exploring how belief in witchcraft began, and the social and context in which this belief flourished.
Author : Jonathan Barry,Marianne Hester,Gareth Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Bengt Ankarloo,Gustav Henningsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0198203888
Based on extensive archival research, this study of European witchcraft and sorcery takes into account major new developments in the historiography of witchcraft.
Author : Alan MacFarlane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134644667
This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an important case study on Essex as well as drawing comparisons with other regions of early modern England. The second edition of this classic work adds a new historiographical introduction, placing the book in context today.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Magic
ISBN : 9780415195065
This collection of trial records, laws, treatises, sermons, speeches, woodcuttings, paintings and literary texts illustrates how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities.
Author : Alan Charles Kors,Edward Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0812210638
"Comprehensive, original, scholarly, philosophically searching and meticulously prepared. Each of the book's seven major sections is prefaced by vivid historical background. . . . Copiously illustrated."--Publisher's Weekly
Author : Michael David Bailey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742533875
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 : Christopher S. Mackay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107393714
The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and detailed analysis of the Latin text, is the only complete English version available, and the most reliable. Now available in a single volume, this key text is at last accessible to students and scholars of medieval history and literature. With detailed explanatory notes and a guide to further reading, this volume offers a unique insight into the fifteenth-century mind and its sense of sin, punishment and retribution.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134442157
Strange Histories presents a serious account of some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European and North American history and explains how they made sense to people living at the time. Using case studies from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, this book provides fascinating insights into the world-view of a vanished age and shows how such occurences fitted in quite naturally with the "common sense" of the time. Explanations of these phenomena, riveting and ultimately rational, encourage further reflection on what shapes our beliefs today. What made reasonable, educated men and women behave in ways that seem utterly nonsensical to us today? This question and many more are answered in this fascinating book.
Author : Lyndal Roper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300119836
A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.