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Palgrave advances in witchcraft historiography / edited by Jonathan Barry and Owen Davies.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Historiography.
- Witchcraft.
- Physical Description:
- x, 248 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Witchcraft historiography
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of witchcraft historiography. By using abroad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day developments in historical theory in relation to the study of the history of witchcraft, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Owen Davies and Jonathan Barry
- The contemporary historical debate, 1400-1750 / Peter Maxwell-Stuart
- Science, medicine and witchcraft / Peter Elmer
- The nineteenth century: medievalism and witchcraft / Christa Tuczay
- The reality of witch cults reasserted: fertility and satanism / Juliette Wood
- The witch-craze as Holocaust: the rise of persecuting societies / Raisa Maria Toivo
- Culture wars: state, religion and popular culture in Europe, 1400-1800 / Marko Nenonen
- The return of the Sabbat: mental archaeologies, conjectural histories or political mythologies? / Willem de Blécourt
- Crime and the law / Brian P. Levack
- Thinking witchcraft: language, literature and intellectual history / Marion Gibson
- Gender, mind and body: feminism and psychoanalysis / Katharine Hodgkin
- Continuity and change: social science perspectives on European witchcraft / Richard Jenkins
- Writing witchcraft: the historians' history, the practioners' past / Jo Pearson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1403911754
- 9781403911759
- 1403911762
- 9781403911766
- OCLC:
- 122702023
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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