The Witchcraft Sourcebook (eBook, ePUB)

Second Edition
Redaktion: Levack, Brian P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Including trial records, demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, and narratives of demonic possession, the documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities. This second edition includes an extended section on the witch trials in England, Scotland and New England, revised and updated introductions to the sources and guides to further reading.

This is essential reading for students of witchcraft.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317503569
• Artikelnr.: 43075021

Autorenporträt

Brian P. Levack is the John E. Green Regents Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications on witchcraft and demonology include The Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd edition, 2006); Witch-hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics, and Religion (2008); and The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (2013). He has also edited The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America(2013).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 Witchcraft and magic in the ancient world 1 The witch of Endor 2 A sorcery trial in the second century CE 3 Curse tablets against Roman charioteers 4 Apuleius: the power of witches 5 Horace: Canidia as a witch figure 6 Love magic in antiquity 7 St Augustine: demonic power in early Christianity PART II The medieval foundations of witch-hunting 8 Canon law and witchcraft 9 St Thomas Aquinas: scholasticism and magic 10 The trial of Dame Alice Kyteler
1324 11 Nicholas Eymeric: magic and heresy
1376 12 The University of Paris: a condemnation of magic
1398 13 Johannes Nider: an early description of the witches' sabbath
1437 14 Heinrich Kramer: Malleus maleficarum
1486 PART III Witch beliefs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 15 Lambert Daneau: Protestantism and witchcraft
1574 16 Henri Boguet: the threat of witchcraft
1602 17 Nicolas Remy: the Devil's mark and flight to the sabbath
1595 18 Martín Del Rio: the maleficia of witches
1600 19 William Perkins: good and bad witches
1608 20 Francesco Maria Guazzo: the pact with the Devil
1608 21 Richard Bernard: The Demonic Pact in England
1630 22 Pierre de Lancre: dancing and sex at the sabbath
1612 23 Cotton Mather: the apocalypse and witchcraft
1692 24 James Hutchinson: children
the covenant
and witchcraft
1697 PART IV The trial and punishment of witches 25 Innocent VIII: papal inquisitors and witchcraft
1484 26 Heinrich Kramer: the torture of accused witches
1486 27 Jean Bodin: witchcraft as an excepted crime
1580 28 Henri Boguet: the conduct of a witchcraft judge
1602 29 King James VI: the swimming and pricking of witches
1597 30 Friedrich Spee: a condemnation of torture
1631 31 Sir Robert Filmer: the discovery of witches
1652 32 Sir George Mackenzie: judicial caution in the trial of witches
1678 33 King Louis XIV of France: the decriminalization of French witchcraft
1682 34 Christian Thomasius: the prohibition of torture
1705 35 The repeal of the English and Scottish witchcraft statutes
1736 PART V Witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 36 The confession of Walpurga Hausmännin
1587 37 The confession of Niclas Fiedler at Trier
1591 38 The trial of Françatte Camont in Lorraine
1598 39 The confessions of witches in Guernsey
1617 40 The confessions of Johannes Junius at Bamberg
1628 41. The Witch-hunt at Eichstätt 1637 42 A Polish Witch-trial at Lublin
1644 43 A Norwegian Witch-trial at Vardø
1655 44 A Russian witch-trial at Lukh
1657 PART VI Witchcraft trials in England
Scotland
and New England 45 Witches demonic familiars at Chelmsford
1566 46 The trial of Agnes Sampson at Edinburgh
1591 47 Witchcraft and the English Aristocracy
1619 48 The trial and confession of Elizabeth Sawyer
1621 49 The trial of Janet Barker and Margaret Lauder at Edinburgh
1643 50 The Matthew Hopkins witch-hunt in Suffolk
1645 51 Witchcraft prosecutions in Kent
1645 52 The first confession of Isobel Gowdie at Auldearn
1662 53 The Salem witchcraft trials
1692 PART VII Demonic possession and witchcraft 54 Johann Weyer: the possession of the nuns at Wertet
1550 55 The Possession of the Lancashire Seven
1595-97. 56 Henri Boguet: the possession of Loyse Maillat
1598 57 The possession of Marthe Brossier
1599 58 Edward Jorden: demonic possession and disease
1603 59 The possessions at Loudun
1634 60 Cotton Mather: the possession of the Goodwin children
1688 61 The possession of Christian Shaw
1697 PART VIII The skeptical tradition 62 Johann Weyer: witches as melancholics
1563 63 Reginald Scot: the unreality of witchcraft
1584 64 Alonso de Salazar Frías: the unreliability of confessions
1612 65 Thomas Hobbes: the nature of demons
1651 66 Baruch Spinoza: the non-existence of the Devil
1661
1675 67 John Webster: witchcraft and the occult
1677 68 Balthasar Bekker: the disenchantment of the world
1695 Index