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Werewolves, witches, and wandering spirits : traditional belief and folklore in early modern Europe / edited by Kathryn A. Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 62.
- Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 62
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demonology--Europe.
- Demonology.
- Folklore--Europe.
- Folklore.
- Witchcraft--Europe.
- Witchcraft.
- Folk literature--Europe--History and criticism.
- Folk literature.
- Supernatural.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe.
- Contents:
- Introduction : expanding the analysis of traditional belief / Kathryn A. Edwards
- Dangerous spirits : shapeshifting, apparitions, and fantasy in Lorraine witchcraft trials / Robin Briggs
- Living with the dead : ghosts in early modern Bavaria / David Lederer
- Reformed or recycled? : possession and exorcism in the sacramental life of early modern France / Sarah Ferber
- Revisiting El Encubierto : navigating between visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth / Sara T. Nalle
- Worms and the Jews : Jews, magic, and community in seventeenth-century Worms / Dean Phillip Bell
- Asmodea : a nun-witch in eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anne Jacobson Schutte
- When witches became false : seducteurs and credules confront the Paris police at the beginning of the eighteenth century / Ulrike Krampl
- God killed Saul : Heinrich Bullinger and Jacob Ruef on the power of the devil / Bruce Gordon
- Such an impure, cruel, and savage beast : images of the werewolf in demonological works / Nicole Jacques-Lefevre
- Charcot, Freud, and the demons / H.C. Erik Midelfort.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-935503-73-1
- OCLC:
- 636279797
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