ISBN:
9781137526335
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 260 Seiten
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
DDC:
398.24/54
Keywords:
Werewolves History
Abstract:
"Today, werewolves are primarily known through films: as humans who change into wolves under the influence of the full moon. Although this is a recent image, werewolves have a long, fragmented and discontinuous history. Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. On the basis of mostly new source material, varying from archaeological finds, demonological tracts, witchcraft trials, slander suits and nineteenth - and twentieth - century legends, its contributors cover the most important European werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia. Werewolf Histories calls for a more sophisticated, contextualised, and differentiated approach and hopes to be contagious enough to spawn more of its kind"--
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology; Willem de Ble;court2. Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-men in the Graeco-Roman World; Richard Gordon3. Into the Wild: Old Norse Stories of Animal Men; Christa Agnes Tuczay4. Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe; Aleksander Pluskowski Interlude: Wolf-Riding5. "What About Some Good Wether?" Witches and Werewolves in 16th Century Italy; Matteo Duni6. "Species", "Phantasia", "Raison": Werewolves and Shape-shifters in Demonological Literature; Johannes Dillinger7. The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphose in the Peripheries of Western Europe; Rita Voltmer8. The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany; Rolf SchulteInterlude: The Shepherd of Wolves9. Estonian Werewolf History; Merili Metsvahi10. The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Michèle Simonsen11. Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions; Maja Pasaric
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:1. The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology; Willem de Ble;court2. Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-men in the Graeco-Roman World; Richard Gordon3. Into the Wild: Old Norse Stories of Animal Men; Christa Agnes Tuczay4. Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe; Aleksander Pluskowski Interlude: Wolf-Riding5. "What About Some Good Wether?" Witches and Werewolves in 16th Century Italy; Matteo Duni6. "Species", "Phantasia", "Raison": Werewolves and Shape-shifters in Demonological Literature; Johannes Dillinger7. The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphose in the Peripheries of Western Europe; Rita Voltmer8. The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany; Rolf SchulteInterlude: The Shepherd of Wolves9. Estonian Werewolf History; Merili Metsvahi10. The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Michèle Simonsen11. Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions; Maja Pasaric.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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