Michael Ostling

Between the Devil and the Host

Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780199587902
• ISBN-10: 0199587906
• Artikelnr.: 34552691

Autorenporträt

Michael Ostling grew up in northern California. He fell in love with Poland while teaching English in that country during a break from university. He did his graduate work at the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, and currently teaches witchcraft, Christianity, mythology and related subjects at Central Michigan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: At the crossroads
Part I. History
1: Contexts
2: Imagining witchcraft in literature and law
3: A winding road to the stake
4: Mechanisms of justice
Part II. Religion
5: Healing and Harming
6: Stealing the sacred
7: Broken bodies
8: Piety in the torture chamber
Part III. Demonology
9: A candle for the devil
10: Demon lovers
11: Translating the Devil
Conclusion
Appendix: Polish witch trials 1511-1775
Bibliography