Heidi Breuer

Crafting the Witch (eBook, PDF)

Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How did the witch become wicked? This is the central question of Crafting the Witch, which documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures that occurred in Arthurian romance as it developed from its earliest continental manifestations in the twelfth century to its flowering in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135868239
• Artikelnr.: 42977929

Autorenporträt

Heidi Breuer is Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?": An Introduction to
Medieval and Early Modern Magic
Chapter Two: Gender-Blending: Transformative Power in Twelfth- and
Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Literature
Chapter Three: From Rags to Riches, Or the Step-Mother's Revenge:
Transformative Power in Late Medieval Arthurian Romances
Chapter Four: The Lady is a Hag: Three Writers and the Transformation of
Magic in Sixteenth-Century England
Chapter Five: Hags on Film: Contemporary Echoes of the Early Modern Wicked
Witch
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?": An Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Magic

Chapter Two: Gender-Blending: Transformative Power in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Literature

Chapter Three: From Rags to Riches, Or the Step-Mother's Revenge: Transformative Power in Late Medieval Arthurian Romances

Chapter Four: The Lady is a Hag: Three Writers and the Transformation of Magic in Sixteenth-Century England

Chapter Five: Hags on Film: Contemporary Echoes of the Early Modern Wicked Witch

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Rezensionen

'There is much to recommend in this book. It is engagingly written, even when dealing with difficult concepts, and the linking of medieval with modern representations of magic is fascinating, especially because many students are first attracted to studying magic because of modern TV shows or novels ... Overall, this is a stimulating and accessible contribution to a growing field, and has much to interest historians of medieval and early modern magic.' - Reviews in History

'There is much to recommend in this book. It is engagingly written, even when dealing with difficult concepts, and the linking of medieval with modern representations of magic is fascinating, especially because many students are first attracted to studying magic because of modern TV shows or novels ... Overall, this is a stimulating and accessible contribution to a growing field, and has much to interest historians of medieval and early modern magic.' - Reviews in History