Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (eBook) von Jonathan Barry

Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
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ISBN-13:
9783319637846
Veröffentl:
2017
Einband:
eBook
Seiten:
283
Autor:
Jonathan Barry
Serie:
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
eBook Format:
PDF
eBook-Typ:
Reflowable eBook
Kopierschutz:
Digital Watermark [Social-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne.- Contested Knowledge: The Historical Anthropologists 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.

Beschreibung
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 Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists who have collaborated closely with De Blécourt. Essays pick up some or all of the themes and approaches he pioneered, and apply them to cases which range in time and space across all the main regions of Europe since the thirteenth century until the present day. While some draw heavily on texts, others on archival sources, and others on field research, they all share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels, respecting the many varieties and ambiguities in such meanings and experiences and resisting attempts to reduce them to master narratives or simple causal models.

The chapter 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660-1832' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Autor
Jonathan Barry is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Exeter, UK, and currently a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator for his project, 'The Medical World of Early Modern England, Ireland and Wales c.1500-1715'.

Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Together with Jonathan Barry and Willem de Blécourt, he edits the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic series.

Cornelie Usborne is Professor Emerita of History at Roehampton University, UK, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. She has shared her life with Willem de Blécourt, and thus with witchcraft studies, for many years.




 

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Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present von Jonathan Barry - mit der ISBN: 9783319637846

bewitchment; cunning folk; demonology; folklore; witch trials; B; History of Modern Europe; Social History; Cultural History; History of Medieval Europe; History of Early Modern Europe; History, Online-Buchhandlung


 

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