An edition of The witchcraft reader
(2002)
The witchcraft reader
by Darren Oldridge
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Offering a selection of historical writing on witchcraft, this text explores how belief in witchcraft began and the social and cultural context in which this belief flourished. A range of historical perspectives is collected here.
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Table of Contents
Witch trials in mediaeval Europe -- Richard Kieckhefer -- The
demonization of mediaeval heretics -- Norman Cohn -- The
experience of bewitchment -- Robin Briggs
Weather, hunger and fear : origins of the European witch-hunts in climate, society and mentality -- Wolfgang Behringer -- The
sociology of Jura witchcraft -- E. William Monter
Witchcraft narratives and folklore motifs in southern Italy -- Davide Gentilcore
Heartland of the witchcraze -- H.C. Erik Midelfort
Deciphering the witches' sabbat -- Carlo Ginzburg -- The
alternative world of the witches' sabbat -- Éva Pócs
Satanic myths and cultural realities -- Robert Muchembled
Inversion, misrule and the meaning of witchcraft -- Stuart Clark
Protestant witchcraft, Catholic witchcraft -- Stuart Clark
Confessional identity and magic in the late sixteenth century : Jakob Bithner and witchcraft in Styria -- Edmund Kern
Between the devil and the inquisitor : Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs -- Gary K. Waite -- The
crime of witchcraft in early modern Europe -- Christina Larner
State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe -- Brian Levack -- The
devil in Renaissance France -- David Nicholls -- The
devil and the German people -- H.C. Erik Midelfort -- A
divine apparition or demonic possession? -- Moshe Sluhovsky
Was witch-hunting woman-hunting? -- Christina Larner
Patriarchal reconstruction and witch-hunting -- Marianne Hester
Women, witchcraft and the legal process -- Jim Sharpe
Women : witches and witnesses -- Clive Holmes
Oedipus and the devil -- Lyndal Roper
Witchcraft and power in early modern England : the case of Margaret Moore -- Malcolm Gaskill
Witches, wives and mothers : witchcraft persecution and women's confessions in seventeenth-century England -- Louise Jackson -- The
end of witch trials -- Brian Levack -- The
decline of witches and the rise of vampires -- Gábor Klaniczay
Urbanization and the decline of witchcraft : an examination of London -- Owen Davies
Occult survivors : the making of a myth -- Philip Jenkins and Daniel Maier-Katkin -- The
wish not to know-- Patrick Casement.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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