Details

Subject(s)

• Witchcraft—History [Browse]

Editor

• Oldridge, Darren, 1966- [Browse]

Series

Routledge readers in history [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part One: Medieval origins
• 1.Witch trials in medieval Europe / Richard Kieckhefer
• 2. The demonisation of medieval heretics / Norman Cohn
• 3. Witchcraft and reform in the late Middle Ages / Michael D. Bailey
• 4. The Malleus maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft / Hans Peter Broedel
• 5. Ulrich Molitor and the imagery of witchcraft / Charles Zika
• Part Two: Witchcraft, magic and fear
• 6. The experience of bewitchment / Robin Briggs
• 7. Spirits in popular belief / Euan Cameron
• 8. Witches and charmers in Scotland / Joyce Miller
• 9. The medical effects of witchcraft in early modern Europe / Edward Bever
• 10. Weather, hunger and fear : origins of the European witch-hunts in climate, society and mentality / Wolfgang Behringer
• Part Three: The idea of a witch cult
• 11. Margaret Murray's witch cult / Jacqueline Simpson
• 12. Heartland of the witchcraze / H.C. Erik Midelfort
• 13. From dream cult to witchs' sabbath / Gustav Henningsen-- 14. The alternative world of the witches' sabbat / Éva Pócs
• 15. Inversion, misrule and the meaning of witchcraft / Stuart Clark
• Part Four: Witchcraft and the Reformation
• 16. Protestant witchcraft, Catholic witchcraft / Stuart Clark
• 17. A Lutheran response to witchcraft and magic / Alison Rowlands
• 18. Anabaptists and the devil / Gary K. Waite
• Part Five: Witchcraft and Authority
• 19. Pierre de Lancre and the Basque witch-hunt / Gerhild Scholz Williams
• 20. State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe / Brian P. Levack
• 21. Witchcraft, confessionalism and authority / William Monter
• Part Six: Witchcraft, possession and the Devil
• 22. The devil and the German people / H.C. Erik Midelfort 23. The devil and familiar spirits in English witchcraft / Charlotte-Rose Millar
• 24. The social meanings of demonic possession / Kathleen Sands
• 25. Ecstasy, possession, witchcraft / Sarah Ferber
• 26. Johann Weyer and the devil / Elisa Slattery-- Part Seven: Witchcraft and gender
• 27. Wome and witchcraft before the "Great Witch Hunt" / Karen Jones and Michael Zell
• 28. The myth of the persecuted female healer / Jane P. Davidson
• 29. Damned women in Puritan New England / Elizabeth Reis
• 30. Women, witches and witnesses / Clive Holmes
• 31. Masculinity and male witches in old and new England / E.J. Kent
• Part Eight: Reading confessions
• 32. Witchcraft confessions and demonology / Virginia Krause
• 33. Witches, wives and mothers / Louise Jackson
• 34. Oedipus and the devil / Lyndal Roper
• Part Nine: The decline of witchcraft
• 35. The decline of witchcraft prosecutions / Brian P. Levack
• 36. The decline of the witchcraft pamphlet / Marion Gibson
• 37. Urbanisation and the decline of witchcraft : an examination of London / Owen Davies
• 38. Witchcraft after the witch trials / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
• Part Ten: Witchcraft today
• 39. Modern witches and their past / Diane Purkiss-- 40. Wicca as witchcraft / Ethan Doyle White
• 41. Witchcraft and satanic abuse / Jean La Fontaine
• 42. Harry Potter in America / Marion Gibson
• 43. Modern western images of witches / Julian Goodare.

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ISBN

• 9781138565401 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 1138565407 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 9781138565425 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1138565423 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2019017181

OCLC

1136700468

Other standard number

• 40029519496

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