Witchcraft in early modern Europe studies in culture and belief
This important collection 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...
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Cambridge University Press
1996
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 'Many reasons why': witchcraft and the problem of multiple explanation / Robin Briggs
- Witchcraft studies in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland / Wolfgang Behringer
- State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe / Brian P. Levack
- The devil's encounter with America / Fernando Cervantes
- 'Saints or sorcerers': Quakerism, demonology and the decline of witchcraft in seventeenth-century England / Peter Elmer
- The descendants of Circe: witches and Renaissance fictions / Gareth Roberts
- Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany / Lyndal Roper
- The devil in East Anglia: the Matthew Hopkins trials reconsidered / Jim Sharpe
- Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the background to accusations / Malcolm Gaskill
- Patriarchal reconstruction and witch hunting / Marianne Hester
- Witchcraft repealed / Ian Bostridge
- On the continuation of witchcraft / Willem de Blecourt