Between the devil and the host
Subtitle: imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland
By: Michael Ostling
Series: The past & present book series; Past & present book series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780199587902
Subjects: Catholics; Occultism; Religious identity; Historia; Romersk-katolska kyrkan; Häxprocesser; History; Catholic Church; Witch hunting
Description: "... Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes ... Through the dark glass of witchcraft Ostling explores the religious lives of early modern women and men: their gender attitudes, their Christian faith and folk cosmology, their prayers and spells, their adoration of Christ incarnate in the transubstantiated Eucharist, and their relations with goblin-like house demons and ghosts."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-274) and index.