Demonology, Religion, and Witchcraft (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology
Redaktion: Levack, Brian P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136537998
• Artikelnr.: 47895922

Autorenporträt

Brian P. Levack is John Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A former Guggenheim Fellow, his other writings on witchcraft include Articleson Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (1992), TheWitch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1995), and Witchcraftand Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies (1999). Dr. Levack is also a specialist in the history of early modern England and Scotland, and has written several books on the subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Witchcraft and Catholic Theology
The Holy and the Unholy: Sainthood
Witchcraft
and Magic in Late Medieval Europe
The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic
The Devil' s Hoodwink: Seeingand Believingin the World of Sixteenth Century Witchcraft
Bernardino of Siena
Popular Preacher and Witch-Hunter: A 1426 Witch Trial in Rome
Institors of Innsbruck: Heinrich Institoris
the SummisDesiderantes
and the Brixen Witch Trial of 1485
Protestant Demonology: Sin
Superstition
and Society {c.1520-c.1630)
Martin Luther on Witchcraft: a True Reformer?
The Devil as Doctor: Witchcraft
Wodrow
and the Wider World
The Devil's Encounter with America
Witches
Sinners
and the Underside of Covenant Theology
Visions of evil: Popular Culture
Puritanism and the Massachusetts Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Magic and the Theology of the Body: Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
A Woman and the Devil: Possessionand Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France
The Devils of Queretaro: Scepticism and Credulity in Late Seventeenth Century Mexico
Balthasar Bekker and the Decline of the Witch-Craze: The Old Demonology and the New Philosophy
'Man is a Devil to Himself': David Joris and the Rise of a Sceptical Tradition towards the Devil in the Early Modern Netherlands
Witchcraft and Tolerance: The Dutch case
Saints or Sorcerers: Quakerism
Demonology
and the Decline of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England
Acknowledgments