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ISBN: 0719066581 9786610734573 1280734574 1847790992 9781526137975 9781847790996 9781280734571 1526137976 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,
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An important collection of essays that use a variety of different approaches and sources to uncover the continued relevance of witchcraft and magic in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. --- Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. --- Witchcraft --- Parapsychology & Occult Sciences --- Social Sciences --- History --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Europe --- 19th century --- 20th century --- transylvania --- folklore --- witchcraft --- witches --- Catholic Church --- Magic (supernatural) --- Superstition --- Humanities. --- History.
ISBN: 0719066603 9786610734580 1280734582 184779100X 1526137267 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,
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Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. While witchcraft prosecutions were comparatively rare by the mid-eighteenth century, the intellectual debate did no disappear; it either became more private or refocused on such issues as possession. The contributors come from different academic disciplines, and by borrowing from literary theory, archaeology and folklore they move beyond the usual historical perspectives and sources. They emphasise the importance of studying such themes as the aftermath of witch trials, the continued role of cunning-folk in society, and the nature of the witchcraft discourse in different social contexts. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the decline of the European witch trials and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic during the Enlightenment. More generally it will appeal to those with a lively interest in the cultural history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first of a two-volume set of books looking at the phenomenon of witchcraft, magic and the occult in Europe since the seventeenth century.
Esoteric sciences --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1700-1799 --- Enlightenment --- Witchcraft --- History --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- enlightenment --- folklore --- witchcraft --- Superstition --- Witch-hunt --- Literature and literary studies. --- Literary studies: general. --- Biography, Literature & Literary Studies --- Literature: history & criticism.
ISBN: 1781700168 128073387X 9786610733873 1847790240 1417576375 9781526137982 9781781700167 9781847790248 9781417576371 6610733872 1526137984 0719052599 9780719052590 9781280733871 184779520X 9781847795205 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,
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This text looks at why witch-trials failed to escalate into ""witch-crazes"" in certain parts of early modern Europe. Using the legal records of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the book explores the social and psychological conflicts behind the making of accusations and confessions of witchcraft.
Witchcraft --- History --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- 291.33 --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- germany --- folklore --- witchcraft --- witches --- Defamation --- Early modern period --- Lutheranism --- Torture --- Wettringen (Münsterland) --- Witch trials in the early modern period --- Witch-hunt --- Würth --- History. --- European history. --- HISTORY / Europe / Germany. --- History & Archaeology
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