Male witches in early modern Europe / Lara Apps and Andrew Gow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apps, Lara, author.

Gow, Andrew Colin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Europe--History.

Witchcraft.

Warlocks--Europe--History.

Warlocks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 190 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting, challenging the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. Shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. It uses feminist categories of gender analysis to challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies providing a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms than has hitherto been available.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of figures

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Invisible men

2 Secondary targets? Male witches on trial

3 Tortured confessions

4 Literally unthinkable?

5 Conceptual webs

Conclusion and afterword

Appendix Johannes Junius

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-185) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 24, 2020).

ISBN:

1-280-73390-X

9786610733903

1-84779-018-6

1-4175-7475-5

1-5261-3750-X

OCLC:

1202567704