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Author: Alan Charles Kors
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780812217513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.
Author: Alan Charles Kors
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan MacFarlane
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-10
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1134644663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an important case study on Essex as well as drawing comparisons with other regions of early modern England. The second edition of this classic work adds a new historiographical introduction, placing the book in context today.
Author: Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993-05-27
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9780198203889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive archival research, this study of European witchcraft and sorcery takes into account major new developments in the historiography of witchcraft.
Author: Ivan Bunn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-11-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1134696337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial were achieved. The authors consider the key participants in the case, including the judge and medical witness, their institutional importance, their part in the fate of the women and their future careers. Through detailed research of primary sources, the authors explore the important implications of this case for the understanding of hysteria, group mentality, social forces and the witchcraft phenomenon as a whole.
Author: Jonathan Barry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-03-12
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780521638753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 0191648833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108861121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterized this fascinating period? This much revised and expanded new edition of Magic in the Middle Ages surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval Europe. It takes into account the extensive new developments in the history of medieval magic in recent years, featuring new material on angel magic, the archaeology of magic, and the magical efficacy of words and imagination. Richard Kieckhefer shows how magic represents a crossroads in medieval life and culture, examining its relationship and relevance to religion, science, philosophy, art, literature, and politics. In surveying the different types of magic that were used, the kinds of people who practiced magic, and the reasoning behind their beliefs, Kieckhefer shows how magic served as a point of contact between the popular and elite classes, how the reality of magical beliefs is reflected in the fiction of medieval literature, and how the persecution of magic and witchcraft led to changes in the law.
Author: Darren Oldridge
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780415214933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe excellent reader offers a selection of the best historical writing on witchcraft, exploring how belief in witchcraft began, and the social and context in which this belief flourished.
Author: Michael David Bailey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780742533875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic and superstition in Europe from antiquity to the present. Focusing mainly on the medieval and early modern era, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems_particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca_from Europe to the United States. He explains how magic was understood, constructed, and frequently condemned and how magical beliefs and practices have changed over time yet also remain vital even today.
