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Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Period of the Witch Trials written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact survey of the European witch craze of the early modern period--a craze that later spilled over to America.
Author : William Monter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0485891042
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 written by William Monter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.>
Author : Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520320573
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book European Witch Trials written by Richard Kieckhefer and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the histo.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812217063
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5 written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-10-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. 4. The Period of the Witch Trials written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812217872
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-12-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Most European prosecutions for the crime of witchcraft occurred between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the peak coming in the hundred years after 1560. This volume brings together the large amount of recent scholarship on witchcraft of this period and provides a novel analysis of the trials by considering the legal systems involved. Witch hunts, methods of torture, and the scientific interest in magic spells and demonology as an intellectual pursuit are also covered in detail.
Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0485891069
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5 written by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. 6. The Twentieth Century written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Scarre
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333399330
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe written by Geoffrey Scarre and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of witchcraft and magic in 16th and 17th century Europe, Geoffrey Scarre provides an examination of the theoretical and intellectual rationales which made prosecution for the crime acceptable to the continent's judiciaries.
Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137267
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Beyond the witch trials written by Owen Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book looks at aspects of the continuation of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the last of the secular and ecclesiastical trials during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, through to the nineteenth century. It provides a brief outline of witch trials in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland. By the second half of the seventeenth century, as the witch trials reached their climax in Sweden, belief in the interventionist powers of the Devil had become a major preoccupation of the educated classes. Having acknowledged the slight possibility of real possession by the Devil, Benito Feijoo threw himself wholeheartedly into his real objective: to expose the falseness of the majority of the possessed. The book is concerned with accusations of magic, which were formalised as denunciations heard by the Inquisition of the Archdiocese of Capua, a city twelve miles north of Naples, during the first half of the eighteenth century. One aspect of the study of witchcraft and magic, which has not yet been absorbed into the main stream of literature on the subject, is the archaeological record of the subject. As a part of the increasing interest in 'popular' culture, historians have become more conscious of the presence of witchcraft after the witch trials. The aftermath of the major witch trials in Dalarna, Sweden, demonstrates how the authorities began the awkward process of divorcing themselves from popular concerns and beliefs regarding witchcraft.
Author : Jonathan Barry
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319637839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present written by Jonathan Barry and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists who have collaborated closely with De Blécourt. Essays pick up some or all of the themes and approaches he pioneered, and apply them to cases which range in time and space across all the main regions of Europe since the thirteenth century until the present day. While some draw heavily on texts, others on archival sources, and others on field research, they all share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels, respecting the many varieties and ambiguities in such meanings and experiences and resisting attempts to reduce them to master narratives or simple causal models. The chapter 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660-1832' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700 written by Alan Charles Kors and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.
Author : Alexander Roberts
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book A Treatise of Witchcraft written by Alexander Roberts and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Treatise of Witchcraft" by Alexander Roberts hinges around a local witchcraft trial of one Mary Smith in King's Lynne, Norfolk, which Roberts' had a personal involvement in. The trial account is framed by Roberts' general beliefs about witchcraft, organised in the form of 9 'propositions'. He adds his opinion on key arguments in demonology. As preacher, it was one of Roberts' duties to visit these accuesed during their last days.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648833
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America written by Brian P. Levack and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317875591
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe written by Brian P. Levack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1450 and 1750 thousands of people – most of them women – were accused, prosecuted and executed for the crime of witchcraft. The witch-hunt was not a single event; it comprised thousands of individual prosecutions, each shaped by the religious and social dimensions of the particular area as well as political and legal factors. Brian Levack sorts through the proliferation of theories to provide a coherent introduction to the subject, as well as contributing to the scholarly debate. The book: Examines why witchcraft prosecutions took place, how many trials and victims there were, and why witch-hunting eventually came to an end. Explores the beliefs of both educated and illiterate people regarding witchcraft. Uses regional and local studies to give a more detailed analysis of the chronological and geographical distribution of witch-trials. Emphasises the legal context of witchcraft prosecutions. Illuminates the social, economic and political history of early modern Europe, and in particular the position of women within it. In this fully updated third edition of his exceptional study, Levack incorporates the vast amount of literature that has emerged since the last edition. He substantially extends his consideration of the decline of the witch-hunt and goes further in his exploration of witch-hunting after the trials, especially in contemporary Africa. New illustrations vividly depict beliefs about witchcraft in early modern Europe.
Author : Jonathan Barry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521638753
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe written by Jonathan Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.
