Witches of the North [electronic resource] : Scotland and Finnmark / by Liv Helene Willumsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willumsen, Liv Helene, 1948-

Series:

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 170.

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Scotland--History.

Witchcraft.

Witchcraft--Scotland--Orkney--History.

Witchcraft--Scotland--Shetland--History.

Witchcraft--Norway--Finnmark fylke--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.

Contents:

pt. I. Mainland Scotland

pt. II. Orkney and Shetland

pt. III. Finnmark, northern Norway

pt. IV. Closing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

90-04-25292-4

OCLC:

851156579

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004252929 DOI