The Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America
Record details
- ISBN: 0199578168
- ISBN: 9780199578160
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 630 pages ; 25 cm. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Series statement on jacket. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Brian P. Levack -- Part I: Witch beliefs. Magic and its hazards in the late medieval West / Richard Kieckhefer ; Fifteenth-century witch beliefs / Hans Peter Broedel ; Popular witch beliefs and magical practices / Edward Bever ; Demonologies / Gerhild Scholz Williams ; Sabbath stories: towards a new history of witches' assemblies / Willem de Blécourt ; The sceptical tradition / Walter Stephens ; Witchcraft in early modern literature / Diane Purkiss ; Images of witchcraft in early modern Europe / Charles Zika -- Part II: Witchcraft prosecutions. The first wave of trials for diabolical witchcraft / Richard Kieckhefer ; The German witch trials / Thomas Robisheaux ; Witchcraft and the local communities: the Rhine-Moselle region / Robin Briggs ; Witchcraft trials in France / William Monter ; Witchcraft and wealth: the case of the Netherlands / Hans de Waardt ; Witchcraft prosecutions in Italy / Tamar Herzig ; Witchcraft in Iberia / William Monter ; Witchcraft trials in England / Malcolm Gaskill ; Witchcraft in Scotland / Julian Goodare ; Witchcraft in Poland: milk and malefice / Michael Ostling ; Witch-hunting in early modern Hungary / Ildikó Sz. Kristóf ; Witchcraft trials in Russia: history and historiography / Valerie Kivelson ; Witchcraft criminality and witchcraft research in the Nordic countries / Rune Blix Hagen ; Witchcraft in British America / Richard Godbeer ; Merging magical traditions: sorcery and witchcraft in Spanish and Portuguese America / Iris Gareis ; The decline and end of witchcraft prosecutions / Brian P. Levack -- Part III: Themes of witchcraft research. Witchcraft and gender in early modern Europe / Alison Rowlands ; Witchcraft and the law / Brian P. Levack ; Sixteenth-century religious reform and the witch-hunts / Gary K. Waite ; On the neuropsychological origins of witchcraft cognition: the geographic and economic variable / Oscar Di Simplicio ; Politics, state-building, and witch-hunting / Johannes Dillinger ; Science and witchcraft / Peter Elmer ; Medicine and witchcraft / Peter Elmer ; Demonic possession, exorcism, and witchcraft / Sarah Ferber. |
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