Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography
Title | Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | J. Barry |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2007-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230593488 |
This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography
Title | Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Barry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781403935120 |
Offering a survey of Witchcraft historiography by using a chronological structure, this book draws on contributions from experts in the field to provide an overview of the area.
Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789
Title | Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789 PDF eBook |
Author | J. Barry |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2011-12-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0230361382 |
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Raising Spirits
Title | Raising Spirits PDF eBook |
Author | J. Barry |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137378948 |
Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.
Emotions in the History of Witchcraft
Title | Emotions in the History of Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Kounine |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2017-02-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137529032 |
Bringing together leading historians, anthropologists, and religionists, this volume examines the unbridled passions of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present. Witchcraft is an intensely emotional crime, rooted in the belief that envy and spite can cause illness or even death. Witch-trials in turn are emotionally driven by the grief of alleged victims and by the fears of magistrates and demonologists. With examples ranging from Russia to New England, Germany to Cameroon, chapters cover the representation of emotional witches in demonology and art; the gendering of witchcraft as female envy or male rage; witchcraft as a form of bullying and witchcraft accusation as a form of therapy; love magic and demon-lovers; and the affective memorialization of the “Burning Times” among contemporary Pagan feminists. Wide-ranging and methodologically diverse, the book is appropriate for scholars of witchcraft, gender, and emotions; for graduate or undergraduate courses, and for the interested general reader.
Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
Title | Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | A. Rowlands |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2009-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230248373 |
Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.
Writing Witch-Hunt Histories
Title | Writing Witch-Hunt Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Marko Nenonen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004257918 |
This book gives an analytical review of the history of witch-hunt historiography. So far not much attention has been paid to how the European witch-hunts have been studied and explained in some 150 years of academic research on the issue. The history of the approaches and explanations in witch-hunt research fundamentally contributes not only to our understanding of the bizarre phenomenon in European history but also contributes to understanding of cultural as well as academic trends which heavily direct any research even when scholars are not cognisant of their underlying premises. How and why the picture of witch-hunts has been changing in scholarly works and text books is as illuminating an issue as the proper explanations offered by the research works. Contributors include: Rune Blix Hagen, Ronald Hutton, Gunnar W. Knutsen, Marianna G. Muravyeva, Marko Nenonen, Raisa Maria Toivo, Charles Zika