On the Demon-mania of Witches
Author: Jean Bodin
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780969751250
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Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France
Author: Virginia Krause
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-19
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1107074401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituated at the crossroads of history and literary studies, this book examines confession's place at the heart of French demonology. Drawing on evidence from published treatises, the writings of skeptics such as Montaigne, and the documents from a witchcraft trial, Virginia Krause shows how demonologists erected their science of demons on the confessed experiences of would-be witches.
Shakespeare's Demonology
Author: Marion Gibson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1472500318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.
Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789
Author: J. Barry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781349332298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Thinking with Demons
Author: Stuart Clark
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 850
ISBN-13: 9780198208082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.
The Encyclopedia Of Witchcraft & Demonology
Author: Rossell Hope Robbins
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 1113
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith research sourced by the world's greatest libraries, Robbins has compiled a rational, balanced history of 300 years of horror concentrated primarily in Western Europe. Spanning from the 15th century through the 18th century, the witch-hunt frenzy marks a period of suppressed rational thought; never before have so many been so wrong. To better understand this phenomenon, Robbins examines how the meaning of "witch" has evolved and exposes the true nature of witchcraft—a topic widely discussed in popular culture, though remarkably misunderstood. First published in 1959, Robbins' encyclopedia remains the most authoritative and comprehensive body of information about witchcraft and demonology ever compiled in a single volume. Lavishly acclaimed in academic and popular reviews, this full-scale compendium of fact, history, and legend covers about every phase of this fascinating subject from its origins in the medieval times to its last eruptions in the 18th century. Accompanying the text are 250 illustrations from rare books, contemporary prints, and old manuscripts, many of which have been published here for the first time.
Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger
Author: Gary Michuta
Publisher: Catholic Answers Press
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781683570516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome differences between Catholicism and Protestantism can be tricky to grasp, but one of them just requires the ability to count: Catholic bibles have seventy-three books, whereas Protestant bibles have sixty-sis - plus an appendix with the strange title Apocrypha. What's the story here? Protestants claim that the medieval Catholic Church added six extra books that had never been considered part of the Old Testament, either by Jews or early Christians. Catholics say that the Protestant Reformers removed those books, long considered part of Sacred Scripture, because they didn't like what they contained. In Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger, Gary Michuta presents a revised and expanded version of his authoritative work on this key issue. Combing the historical record from pre-Christian times to the Patristic era to the Reformation and its aftermath, he traces the canon controversy through the writings and actions of its major players.
A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
Author: David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 1000
ISBN-13: 9780802836342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.
Shakespeare's Demonology
Author: Marion Gibson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1780936184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century: the status of the audience and modes of spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims of postdramatic theatre; postdramatic theatre's ongoing relationship with the dramatic tradition; its dialectical qualities, or its eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation and the real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and theatricality in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and agency in postdramatic theatre, dance and performance. Offering analyses of a wide range of international performance examples, scholars in this volume engage with Hans-Thies Lehmann's theoretical positions both affirmatively and critically, relating them to other approaches by thinkers ranging from early theorists such as Brecht, Adorno and Benjamin, to contemporary thinkers such as Fischer-Lichte, Rancière and others
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland
Author: Lawrence Normand
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2022-03-23
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1802079300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fully comprehensible, as well as full texts of the pamphlet News from Scotland and James' Demonology, all in a readable, modernised, scholarly form. Full introductory sections and supporting notes provide information about the contexts needed to understand the texts: court politics, social history and culture, religious changes, law and the workings of the court, and the history of witchcraft prosecutions in Scotland before 1590. The book also brings to bear on this material current scholarship on the history of European witchcraft.
