Witchcraft and masculinities in early modern Europe
By: edited by Alison Rowlands
Series: Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic; Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780230553293
Description: "Men and masculinities are still inadequately incorporated into the historiography of early modern witch trials, despite the fact that 20-25% of all accused 'witches' were male. This book redresses this imbalance by making men the focus of the gender analysis and also covers the issue of regional variation in the gendering of witch persecution"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Not 'the usual suspects'? Male witches, witchcraft, and masculinities in early modern Europe / Alison Rowlands; title: Male witches in the Duchy of Lorraine / Robin Briggs; title: Men as accused witches in the Holy Roman Empire / Rolf Schulte; title: 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; title: Why some men and not others? The male witches of Eichstätt / Jonathan Durrant; title: Giandomenico Fei, the only male witch. A Tuscan or an Italian anomaly? / Oscar Di Simplicio; title: Men and the witch-hunt in Scotland / Julian Goodare; title: Masculinity and witchcraft in seventeenth-century England / Malcolm Gaskill; title: The werewolf, the witch, and the warlock: aspects of gender in the early modern period / Willem de Blécourt; title: Possession and the sexes / Sarah Ferber.