Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle A...
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
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| Jazyk: | English |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Vydanie: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Edícia: | Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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| ISBN: | 9783319637846 |
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Obsah:
- Introduction; Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne
- Contested Knowledge: The Historical Anthropologist's Approach to European Witchcraft; Willem de Blécourt
- Witches and Devil's Magic in Austrian Demonological Legends; Christa Agnes Tuczay
- Hanna Dyâb's Witch and the Great Witch Switch; Ruth Bottigheimer
- The Mirror of the Witches (1600). A German tragedy in context; Rita Voltmer
- Unravelling the Myth and Histories of the Weighing Test at Oudewater: the case of Leentje Williams; Machteld Löwensteyn
- The North Sea as a Crossroads of Witchcraft Beliefs: the limited importance of political boundaries; Hans de Waardt
- "Kind in words and deeds, but false in their hearts". Fear of evil conspiracy in late sixteenth-century Denmark; Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
- "Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschieht" (A dangerous thing in which too much happens easily): The end of village witch-trials in the Saar region; Eva Labouvie
- News from the Invisible World: the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832; Jonathan Barry
- Researching Reverse-Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England; Owen Davies
- The Catechism of Witch Lore in Twentieth-Century Denmark; Gustav Henningsen
- Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia; Mirjam Mencej
- Index.