The period of the witch trials

The period of the witch trials / Bengt Ankarloo, Stuart Clark, William Monter.

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ankarloo, Bengt
Other Authors: Clark, Stuart, Monter, E. William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Athlone, 2002.
Series:Witchcraft and magic in Europe ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Witchcraft > Europe > History.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Europe > History.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Witchcraft & Wicca.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Witchcraft
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART 1: WITCH TRIALS IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE 1560-1660; Montgaillard, 1643; Features of Continental Witch Trials; Witchcraft and the Reformations; Three-quarters German? European Witch Trials 1560-1660; A German Sonderwegl; 1563: Weyer and Wiesensteig; Germany''s ''Superhunts'' (1586-1639); A Bavarian Sonderweg?; Confessionalism and Appellate Justice in the Empire; The ''Lotharingian Corridor'' and Francophone Witch-hunts; Witch-hunting in the Kingdom of France; Witchcraft and the Mediterranean Inquisitions; Witch-hunting after 1650: New and Old Patterns 49.
  • PART 2: WITCH TRIALS IN NORTHERN EUROPE 1450-1700Introduction; The Rise of Government and the Judicial Revolution: Accusatorial versus Inquisitorial Regimes; Consolidation of Patriarchal Social Relations; Development of Theology and Demonology; Social Tensions on the Local Level; The Sixteenth Century; From Sorcery to Witchcraft; Witchcraft by Regions; Conclusion; PART 3: WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE; Chapter 1: Popular Magic; Magic at Work; The Meaning of Magic; Malefidum and Magic; Religious Reformation and Popular Magic; Chapter 2: Demonology; The Literature of Witchcraft.
  • Witchcraft and Intellectual HistoryThe Politics of Witchcraft Belief; Languages of Witchcraft; Chapter 3: Intellectual Magic; ''The Greatest Profoundnesse of Natural Philosophic''; Intellectual Magic and the Scientific Revolution; Natural Magic and Demonic Magic; Magic and Politics; Bibliography; Index; A; C; B; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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