Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark

Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark
Title Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark PDF eBook
Author L. Kallestrup
Publisher Springer
Pages 219
Release 2015-05-28
Genre History
ISBN 1137316977

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This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the narratives of witchcraft as they were laid forward by people involved in the trials.

Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark

Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark
Title Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark PDF eBook
Author L. Kallestrup
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 0
Release 2014-01-14
Genre History
ISBN 9781349593552

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This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the narratives of witchcraft as they were laid forward by people involved in the trials.

Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark

Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark
Title Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark PDF eBook
Author L. Kallestrup
Publisher Springer
Pages 211
Release 2015-05-28
Genre History
ISBN 1137316977

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This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the narratives of witchcraft as they were laid forward by people involved in the trials.

The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials

The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials
Title The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials PDF eBook
Author Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher Routledge
Pages 511
Release 2022-03-28
Genre History
ISBN 1000550567

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Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women’s voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women’s confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical elements, and a systematic comparison between the countries shows strong similarities regarding the impact of specific ideas about witchcraft, use of pressure and torture, the turning point of the trial, and the verdict and sentence. This volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of witchcraft, witchcraft trials, transnationality, cultural exchanges, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.

Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Title Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe PDF eBook
Author Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
Publisher Springer
Pages 354
Release 2017-02-04
Genre History
ISBN 3319323857

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This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer picture of what ‘went before’, as well as what ‘came after’. Thus the volume demonstrates continuity as well as change in the concepts and understandings of magic, heresy and witchcraft. In addition, the geographical pattern of similarities and diversities suggests a comparative approach, transcending confessional as well as national borders. Throughout the medieval and early modern period, the orthodoxy of the Christian Church was continuously contested. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650. Neither contesters nor followers of orthodoxy were homogeneous groups or fractions. They themselves and their ideas changed from one century to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within a common framework of interpretation. This collection of essays focuses on this complex.

Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe
Title Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook
Author Julian Goodare
Publisher Routledge
Pages 395
Release 2020-08-11
Genre History
ISBN 1000080803

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Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists’ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges’ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book’s chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.

The Witch

The Witch
Title The Witch PDF eBook
Author Ronald Hutton
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 385
Release 2017-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 0300229046

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This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft