The witchcraft reader
By: edited by Darren Oldridge.
Contributors: Oldridge, Darren, 1966-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Witchcraft -- History
Description: Offering a selection of historical writing on witchcraft, this text explores how belief in witchcraft began and the social and cultural context in which this belief flourished. A range of historical perspectives is collected here.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Witch trials in mediaeval Europe -- Richard Kieckhefer -- The; title: demonization of mediaeval heretics -- Norman Cohn -- The; title: experience of bewitchment -- Robin Briggs; title: Weather, hunger and fear : origins of the European witch-hunts in climate, society and mentality -- Wolfgang Behringer -- The; title: sociology of Jura witchcraft -- E. William Monter; title: Witchcraft narratives and folklore motifs in southern Italy -- Davide Gentilcore; title: Heartland of the witchcraze -- H.C. Erik Midelfort; title: Deciphering the witches' sabbat -- Carlo Ginzburg -- The; title: alternative world of the witches' sabbat -- Éva Pócs; title: Satanic myths and cultural realities -- Robert Muchembled; title: Inversion, misrule and the meaning of witchcraft -- Stuart Clark; title: Protestant witchcraft, Catholic witchcraft -- Stuart Clark; title: Confessional identity and magic in the late sixteenth century : Jakob Bithner and witchcraft in Styria -- Edmund Kern; title: Between the devil and the inquisitor : Anabaptists, diabolical conspiracies and magical beliefs -- Gary K. Waite -- The; title: crime of witchcraft in early modern Europe -- Christina Larner; title: State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe -- Brian Levack -- The; title: devil in Renaissance France -- David Nicholls -- The; title: devil and the German people -- H.C. Erik Midelfort -- A; title: divine apparition or demonic possession? -- Moshe Sluhovsky; title: Was witch-hunting woman-hunting? -- Christina Larner; title: Patriarchal reconstruction and witch-hunting -- Marianne Hester; title: Women, witchcraft and the legal process -- Jim Sharpe; title: Women : witches and witnesses -- Clive Holmes; title: Oedipus and the devil -- Lyndal Roper; title: Witchcraft and power in early modern England : the case of Margaret Moore -- Malcolm Gaskill; title: Witches, wives and mothers : witchcraft persecution and women's confessions in seventeenth-century England -- Louise Jackson -- The; title: end of witch trials -- Brian Levack -- The; title: decline of witches and the rise of vampires -- Gábor Klaniczay; title: Urbanization and the decline of witchcraft : an examination of London -- Owen Davies; title: Occult survivors : the making of a myth -- Philip Jenkins and Daniel Maier-Katkin -- The; title: wish not to know-- Patrick Casement.