The Routledge History of Witchcraft (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dillinger, Johannes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000765748
• Artikelnr.: 58388003

Autorenporträt

Johannes Dillinger is Professor of Early Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He has published widely on witchcraft and magic, political crime, and constitutional history. His previous publications include Hexen und Magie (2018) and Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Preface
Part 1: Witches in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
Witches in Greece and Rome
Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology in the Bible, Ancient Judaism and Earliest Christianity
Demons and Witchcraft in the Early Church
Witchcraft and Demonology in the Middle Ages
The Rise of the Witchcraft Doctrine
Part 2: The Early Modern Witch Hunts: Regions and Issues
Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Germany - "the Mother of the Witches"
Witch Hunts in the Low Countries (1450-1685)
Witch Hunts in France
Witch Hunting in Spain: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Witch Hunts in Britain
Witchcraft in Scandinavia
Witch Hunts in Eastern Central Europe
Witch Hunts in Eastern Europe
The Salem Witch Hunt
Witchcraft and the Early Modern Media
Witchcraft and Gender
Child-Witches
Witchcraft in Everyday Life
The Interrelationship of Magic and Witchcraft
Part 3: Modern Concepts of Witches
Child Eaters and Other Problems of Democracy: Witchcraft and the American Frontier
Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe
Shifting Figures of the Witch in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Wicca
Disciples of Hell: The History of Satanism
Part 4: Witches and the Arts
Witchcraft and Early Modern Art (1450-1550)
The Witch Figure in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
Where Have All the Witches Gone? The Disappearing Witch and Children's Literature
Witchcraft in Film