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Titre(s) : The Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America [Texte imprimé] / edited by Brian P. Levack
Édition : First Edition
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : xiv- 630 p. ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford handbooks
Lien à la collection : Oxford handbooks
Comprend : Magic and its hazards in the late medieval West /Richard Kieckhefer ; Fifteenth-century
witch beliefs /Hans Peter Broedel ; Popular witch beliefs and magical practices /Edward
Bever ; Demonologies /Gerhild Scholz Williams ; Sabbath stories: towards a new history
of witches' assemblies /Willem de Blécourt ; The sceptical tradition /Walter Stephens
; Witchcraft in early modern literature /Diane Purkiss ; Images of witchcraft in early
modern Europe /Charles Zika ; The first wave of trials for diabolical witchcraft /Richard
Kieckhefer ; The German witch trials /Thomas Robisheaux ; Witchcraft and the local
communities: the Rhine-Moselle region /Robin Briggs ; Witchcraft trials in France
/William Monter ; Witchcraft and wealth: the case of the Netherlands /Hans de Waardt
; Witchcraft prosecutions in Italy /Tamar Herzig ; Witchcraft in Iberia /William Monter
; Witchcraft trials in England /Malcolm Gaskill ; Witchcraft in Scotland /Julian Goodare
; Witchcraft in Poland: milk and malefice /Michael Ostling ; Witch-hunting in early
modern Hungary /Ildikó Sz. Kristóf ; Witchcraft trials in Russia: history and historiography
/Valerie Kivelson ; Witchcraft criminality and witchcraft research in the Nordic countries
/Rune Blix Hagen ; Witchcraft in British America /Richard Godbeer ; Merging magical
traditions: sorcery and witchcraft in Spanish and Portuguese America /Iris Gareis
; The decline and end of witchcraft prosecutions /Brian P. Levack ; Witchcraft and
gender in early modern Europe /Alison Rowlands ; Witchcraft and the law /Brian P.
Levack ; Sixteenth-century religious reform and the witch-hunts /Gary K. Waite ; On
the neuropsychological origins of witchcraft cognition: the geographic and economic
variable /Oscar Di Simplicio ; Politics, state-building, and witch-hunting /Johannes
Dillinger ; Science and witchcraft /Peter Elmer ; Medicine and witchcraft /Peter
Elmer ; Demonic possession, exorcism, and witchcraft /Sarah Ferber
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing
field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs
and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early
eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who
used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches
were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped
him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for
defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of
thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty
thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions
in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
colonies in the Americas
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Levack, Brian P. (1943-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Sorcellerie -- Procès -- Europe -- 1500-1800
Sorcellerie -- Procès -- Amérique du Nord -- 1500-1800
Sorcellerie -- Europe -- 1500-1800
Sorcellerie -- Amérique du Nord -- 1500-1800
Genre ou forme : Ouvrages de référence
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0199578168. - ISBN 9780199578160 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436541873
Notice n° :
FRBNF43654187
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