Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800
Title | Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | W. Wyporska |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2013-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137384212 |
This comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft trials in Wielkopolska, revealing the witch as a force for both good and evil. It explores the use of witchcraft, the nature of accusations and the role of gender.
Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800
Title | Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | W. Wyporska |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2016-02-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781349281923 |
This comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft trials in Wielkopolska, revealing the witch as a force for both good and evil. It explores the use of witchcraft, the nature of accusations and the role of gender.
Between the Devil and the Host
Title | Between the Devil and the Host PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ostling |
Publisher | Past & Present Book |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2011-11-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199587906 |
For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes.
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America PDF eBook |
Author | Brian P. Levack |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 645 |
Release | 2013-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191648833 |
The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.
Recenzja: "Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800"
Title | Recenzja: "Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800" PDF eBook |
Author | Danuta Kowalewska |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Motive and motif
Title | Motive and motif PDF eBook |
Author | Wanda Wyporska |
Publisher | |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Demonology |
ISBN |
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West
Title | The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Collins, S. J. |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 897 |
Release | 2015-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316239497 |
This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to US neo-paganism. For comparative purposes, the volume includes chapters on developments in the Jewish and Muslim worlds, evaluated not simply for what they contributed at various points to European notions of magic, but also as models of alternative development in ancient Mediterranean legacy. Similarly, the volume highlights the transformative and challenging encounters of Europeans with non-Europeans, regarding the practice of magic in both early modern colonization and more recent decolonization.