This important new collection of essays offers a wide readership both an up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft and an indication of the direction of new research. The contributors build on and respond to the issues raised in Keith Thomas' classic study Religion and the Decline of Magic, and suggest a greater emphasis on cultural history, notably issues of power, gender and language. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.
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"Essential reading on the history of European witchcraft." Richard M. Golden, Religious Studies Review
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This important new collection of essays offers a wide readership both an up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft and an indication of the direction of new research. The contributors build on and respond to the issues raised in Keith Thomas's classic study Religion and the Decline of Magic, and suggest a greater emphasis on cultural history, notably issues of power, gender and language. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.
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Essays centered on Keith Thomas' classic,
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This review is from: Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Past and Present Publications) (Hardcover)
This is another fine collection of essays on witchcraft. To be able to fully appreciate the contributions, one should have read Keith Thomas' classic study "Religion and the decline of magic", as most authors refer to the chapters on witchcraft in Thomas' book, and to the related research done by Alan Macfarlane. This is what binds the contributions to this book together. A very interesting essay is the one by Brian Levack on state-building and witch hunting, but that may be my personal bias, as Levack's "The witch hunt in early modern Europe" (another classic) first got me seriously interested in the subject a few years ago. Apart from Levack, there's an essay referring to Dutch witchcraft material, and a contribution by Lyndal Roper, which is identical to chapter 9 of her "Oedipus and the devil".
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van toverij, demonological discussions, witchcraft legislation, ausgerottet wurde, learned demonologists, witchcraft studies, witchcraft prosecutions, witchcraft research, witchcraft debate, witch stereotype, witchcraft persecutions, witchcraft theory, witchcraft act, witchcraft accusations, damned art, major persecutions, educated belief, witchcraft cases, witch beliefs, inquisitorial procedure, witchcraft confessions, witchcraft beliefs, using witchcraft, witch hunting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Keith Thomas, Anna Ebeler, New England, Wolfgang Behringer, Matthew Hopkins, Anna Schwayhofer, Enemies of God, House of Commons, Willem de Blécourt, Alan Macfarlane, Strafbuch des Rats, Euphrosina Endriss, Barbara Fischer, Christina Larner, Ursula Neher, Carlo Ginzburg, East Anglian, Erik Midelfort, Friedrich Spee, Reginald Scot, The Witch-Hunt, Collection of the Sufferings, Mexico City, New World New!
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It is a familiar paradox to claim that the more we know about any subject, the harder it becomes to generalise about it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
van toverij, demonological discussions, witchcraft legislation, ausgerottet wurde, learned demonologists, witchcraft studies, witchcraft prosecutions, witchcraft research, witchcraft debate, witch stereotype, witchcraft persecutions, witchcraft theory, witchcraft act, witchcraft accusations, damned art, major persecutions, educated belief, witchcraft cases, witch beliefs, inquisitorial procedure, witchcraft confessions, witchcraft beliefs, using witchcraft, witch hunting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Keith Thomas, Anna Ebeler, New England, Wolfgang Behringer, Matthew Hopkins, Anna Schwayhofer, Enemies of God, House of Commons, Willem de Blécourt, Alan Macfarlane, Strafbuch des Rats, Euphrosina Endriss, Barbara Fischer, Christina Larner, Ursula Neher, Carlo Ginzburg, East Anglian, Erik Midelfort, Friedrich Spee, Reginald Scot, The Witch-Hunt, Collection of the Sufferings, Mexico City, New World New!
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- Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England by Keith Thomas on 66 pages
- Witchcraft in France and Switzerland: The Borderlands during the Reformation by E. William Monter on 6 pages
- The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Dover Occult) by Reginald Scot on 5 pages
- The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg on 4 pages
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- The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe by Linda C. Hults on 5 pages
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- Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays by Judith Weil on 4 pages
- Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) by Lu Ann Homza on 4 pages
- Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) by Professor Lu Ann Homza on 4 pages
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