Jonathan Barry / Marianne Hester / Gareth Roberts (eds.)

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Studies in Culture and Belief
Herausgeber: Barry, Jonathan; Roberts, Gareth; Hester, Marianne

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Produktbeschreibung

This important collection of essays brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 677g
• ISBN-13: 9780521552240
• ISBN-10: 0521552249
• Artikelnr.: 21896413

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Keith Thomas and the problem of witchcraft: explanations
and representations of witchcraft since Religion and the Decline of Magic
Jonathan Barry; Part I. The Crime and its History: 2. 'Many reasons why':
Witchcraft and the problem of multiple explanation Robin Briggs; 3.
'Witchcraft Studies' in Austria, Germany and Switzerland Wolfgang
Behringer; 4. State-building and witch-hunting in early modern Europe Brian
Levack; Part II. Witchcraft and Religion: 5. The Devil in the Old World and
the New Fernando Cervantes; 6. 'Saints or sorcerers': Quakerism, demonology
and the decline of witchcraft in seventeenth-century England Peter Elmer;
Part III. The Making of a Witch: 7. The descendants of Circe: witches and
Renaissance fictions Gareth Roberts; 8. Witchcraft and fantasy in early
modern Germany Lyndal Roper; 9. The Devil in East Anglia: the Matthew
Hopkins trials reconsidered Jim Sharpe; Part IV. Witchcraft and the Social
Environment: 10. Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the
background to accusations Malcolm Gaskill; 11. Patriarchal reconstuction
and witch-hunting Marianne Hester; Part V. Decline: 12. Witchcraft repealed
Ian Bostridge; 13. On the continuation of witchcraft Willem de Blecourt.