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Darren Oldridge, ed.
The Witchcraft Reader.
London: Routledge, 2005 reprint (previously issued 2002).
ISBN 0415214939;
ISBN-13: 9780415214933.
Paperback, perfect bound.
178x245x25mm.
xiii,448pp.
English.
Generally very good condition: unused, but ex-shop stock and so has some shelf-wear to the edges and corners.This item £12.50
[Publisher's price for 2nd edn. £22.99]
831g.
Notions of witchcraft have haunted the human mind for centuries. At the height of witchcraft persecutions in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, some 50,000 people were executed, they were accused of acts including murder, cannibalism, black magic and devil worshipping.
The Witchcraft Reader offers a selection of the best historical writing on witchcraft, exploring how belief in witchcraft began, and the social and cultural context in which this belief flourished. A whole range of historical perspectives is collected here, including recent research on the role of gender in witch trials, ideas about the Devil and demonic possession, and reasons for the decline of witch trials. The major themes and debates in the study of witchcraft are brought together in a general introduction which places the extracts in a critical context.
Contents:
Kieckhefer, Witchcraft trials in mediaeval Europe;
Cohn, Demonization of mediaeval heretics;
Briggs, Experience of bewitchment;
Behringer, Origins of the European witch-hunts in climate, society & mentality;
Monter, Sociology of Jura witchcraft;
Gentilcore, Witchcraft narratives & folklore motifs in southern Italy;
Midelfort, Heartland of the witchcraze;
Ginzburg, Deciphering the witches' sabbat;
Muchembled, Satanic myths & cultural realities;
Clark, Inversion, misrule & the meaning of witchcraft;
Clark, Protestant witchcraft, Catholic witchcraft;
Kern, Confessional identity & magic in the late 16th-c.;
Waite, Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies & magical beliefs;
Larner, Crime of witchcraft in early modern Europe;
Levack, State building & witch-hunting in early modern Europe;
Nicholls, The devil in renaissance France;
Midelfort, The devil & the German people;
Sluhovsky, A divine apparition or demonic possession?;
Larner, Was witch-hunting woman-hunting?;
Hester, Patriarchal reconstruction & witch-hunting;
Sharpe, Women, witchcraft & the legal process;
Holmes, Women - witches & witnesses;
Roper, Oedipus & the devil;
Gaskill, The case of Margaret Moore;
Jackson, Witchcraft persecution & women's confessions in 17th-c England;
Levack, The end of witch trials;
Klaniczay, The decline of witches & the rise of vampires;
Davies, Urbanization & the decline of witchcraft - an examination of London;
Jenkins & Maier-Katkin, Occult survivors - the making of a myth;
Casement, The wish not to know.
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