The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
(Sprache: Englisch)
A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively 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.
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A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively 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.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America “
- Introduction
- Part I: Witch Beliefs
- 1: Richard Kieckhefer: Magic and its Hazards in the Late Medieval West
- 2: Hans Peter Broedel: Fifteenth-Century Witch Beliefs
- 3: Edward Bever: Popular Witch Beliefs and Magical Practices
- 4: Gerhild Scholz Williams: Demonologies
- 5: Willem de Blécourt: Sabbath Stories: Towards a New History of Witches' Assemblies
- 6: Walter Stephens: The Sceptical Tradition
- 7: Diane Purkiss: Witchcraft in Early Modern Literature
- 8: Charles Zika: Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
- Part II: Witchcraft Prosecutions
- 9: Richard Kieckhefer: The First Wave of Trials for Diabolical Witchcraft
- 10: Thomas Robisheaux: The German Witch Trials
- 11: Robin Briggs: Witchcraft and the Local Communities: The Rhine-Moselle Region
- 12: William Monter: Witchcraft Trials in France
- 13: Hans de Waardt: Witchcraft and Wealth: The Case of the Netherlands
- 14: Tamar Herzig: Witchcraft Prosecutions in Italy
- 15: William Monter: Witchcraft in Iberia
- 16: Malcolm Gaskill: Witchcraft Trials in England
- 17: Julian Goodare: Witchcraft in Scotland
- 18: Michael Ostling: Witchcraft in Poland: Milk and Malefice
- 19: Ildikó Sz. Kristóf: Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Hungary
- 20: Valerie Kivelson: Witchcraft Trials in Russia: History and Historiography
- 21: Rune Blix Hagen: Witchcraft Criminality and Witchcraft Research in the Nordic Countries
- 22: Richard Godbeer: Witchcraft in British America
- 23: Iris Gareis: Merging Magical Traditions: Sorcery and Witchcraft in Spanish and Portuguese America
- 24: Brian P. Levack: The Decline and End of Witchcraft Prosecutions
- Part III: Themes of Witchcraft Research
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25: Alison Rowlands: Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Europe
26: Brian P. Levack: Witchcraft and the Law
27: Gary K. Waite: Sixteenth-Century Religious Reform and the Witch-Hunts
28: Oscar Di Simplicio: On the Neuropsychological Origins of Witchcraft Cognition: the Geographic and Economic Variable
29: Johannes Dillinger: Politics, Sate Building, and Witch-Hunting
30: Peter Elmer: Science and Witchcraft
31: Peter Elmer: Medicine and Witchcraft
32: Sarah Ferber: Demonic Possession, Exorcism, and Witchcraft
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Autoren-Porträt
Brian P. Levack has published widely on English and Scottish legal history and the history of witchcraft prosecutions. His books on witchcraft include The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd ed., 2006) and Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (2008). He is co-author of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999) and the editor of The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004).Bibliographische Angaben
- 644 Seiten, Maße: 17,2 x 24,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Brian P. Levack
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198723636
- ISBN-13: 9780198723639
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
a worthwhile contribution to the literature which all concerned with early modern witchcraft will consult with profit. Michael Hunter, History Today
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