Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe [electronic resource] /
Rowlands, A.editor.
Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Not 'the usual suspects'? Male witches, witchcraft, and masculinities in early modern Europe / Alison Rowlands -- Male witches in the Duchy of Lorraine / Robin Briggs -- Men as accused witches in the Holy Roman Empire / Rolf Schulte -- Witch-finders, witch-hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The prominent role of men in the mass persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Rita Voltmer -- Why some men and not others? The male witches of Eichstätt / Jonathan Durrant -- Giandomenico Fei, the only male witch. A Tuscan or an Italian anomaly? / Oscar Di Simplicio -- Men and the witch-hunt in Scotland / Julian Goodare -- Masculinity and witchcraft in seventeenth-century England / Malcolm Gaskill -- The werewolf, the witch, and the warlock: aspects of gender in the early modern period / Willem de Blécourt -- Possession and the sexes / Sarah Ferber.
Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Clinical psychology.
Religions.
Social history.
Europe—History—1492-.
European History.
Modern History.
Clinical Psychology.
Comparative Religion.
Social History.
History of Early Modern Europe.