| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 408 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge readers in history
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Routledge readers in history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Witch trials in medieval Europe / Richard Kieckhefer -- Demonisation of medieval heretics / Norman Cohn -- Witchcraft and reform in the late Middle Ages / Michael D. Bailey -- Malleus maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft / Hans Peter Broedel -- Experience of bewitchment / Robin Briggs -- Witches and charmers in Scotland / Joyce Miller -- Medical effects of witchcraft in early modern Europe / Edward Bever -- Weather, hunger and fear : origins of the European witch-hunts in climate, society and mentality / Wolfgang Behringer -- Margaret Murray's witch cult / Jacqueline Simpson -- Heartland of the witchcraze / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- From dream cult to witchs' sabbath / Gustav Henningsen -- Alternative world of the witches' sabbat / Éva Pócs -- Inversion, misrule and the meaning of witchcraft / Stuart Clark -- Protestant witchcraft, Catholic witchcraft / Stuart Clark -- A Lutheran response to witchcraft and magic / Alison Rowlands -- Anabaptists and the devil / Gary K. Waite -- Crime of witchcraft in Europe / Christina Larner -- Pierre de Lancre and the Basque witch-hunt / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- State-building and witch-hunting in early modern Europe / Brian P. Levack -- Witchcraft, confessionalism and authority / William Monter -- Devil and the German people / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- Social meanings of demonic possession / Kathleen Sands -- Ecstasy, possession, witchcraft / Sarah Ferber -- Johann Weyer and the devil / Elisa Slattery -- Was witch-hunting woman-hunting? / Christina Larner -- Myth of the persecuted female healer / Jane P. Davidson -- Damned women in Puritan New England / Elizabeth Reis -- Women, witches and witness / Clive Holmes -- Masculinity and male witches in old and new England / E.J. Kent -- Witchcraft confessions and demonology / Virginia Krause -- Witches, wives and mothers / Louise Jackson -- Oedipus and the devil / Lyndal Roper -- Decline of witchcraft prosecutions / Brian P. Levack -- Decline of the witchcraft pamphlet / Marion Gibson -- Urbanisation and the decline of witchcraft : an examination of London / Owen Davies -- Witchcraft after the witch trials / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Modern witches and their past / Diane Purkiss -- Witchcraft and satanic abuse / Jean La Fontaine. |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- History.
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Witchcraft. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Oldridge, Darren, 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Witchcraft reader. 2nd ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008 (OCoLC)624474592 |
| ISBN |
0415415640 (hardcover) |
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0415415659 (paperback) |
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9780415415644 (hardcover) |
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9780415415651 (paperback) |
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