Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present edited by Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies, Cornelie Usborne.

This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle A...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barry, Jonathan (Editor), Davies, Owen (Editor), Usborne, Cornelie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Europe—History—476-1492.
Europe—History—1492-.
Civilization—History.
Social history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne
  • Contested Knowledge: The Historical Anthropologist’s Approach to European Witchcraft; Willem de Blécourt
  • Witches and Devil's Magic in Austrian Demonological Legends; Christa Agnes Tuczay
  • Hanna Dyâb's Witch and the Great Witch Switch; Ruth Bottigheimer
  •  The Mirror of the Witches (1600). A German tragedy in context; Rita Voltmer
  • Unravelling the Myth and Histories of the Weighing Test at Oudewater: the case of Leentje Williams; Machteld Löwensteyn
  • The North Sea as a Crossroads of Witchcraft Beliefs: the limited importance of political boundaries; Hans de Waardt
  • “Kind in words and deeds, but false in their hearts”. Fear of evil conspiracy in late sixteenth-century Denmark; Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
  • “Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschieht” (A dangerous thing in which too much happens easily): The end of village witch-trials in the Saar region; Eva Labouvie
  • News from the Invisible World: the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832; Jonathan Barry
  • Researching Reverse-Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England; Owen Davies
  • The Catechism of Witch Lore in Twentieth-Century Denmark; Gustav Henningsen
  • Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia; Mirjam Mencej
  • Index.

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