ISBN:
9780333985298
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 241 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Palgrave History Collection
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Davidson, Jane P. [Rezension von: Clark, Stuart, Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture] 2002
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
History
;
Social history
Abstract:
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the 'languages' of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred
Abstract:
Preface -- Notes of Contributors -- Introduction; S. ClarkPART 1: HISTORY AND STORY IN WITCHCRAFT TRIALS -- Texts of Authority: Witchcraft Accusations and the Demonstration of Truth in Early Modern England; P. Rushton -- Understanding Witchcraft; M. Gibson -- Witches and Witnesses in Old and New England; M. Gaskill -- Sounds of Silence: Fairies and Incest in Scottish Witchcraft Stories; D. Purkiss -- PART 2: CONTEXTS OF WITCHCRAFT -- Towards a Politics of Witchcraft in Early Modern England; P. Elmer -- The Religion of Reginald Scot; D. Wootton -- Hell Upon Earth or the Language of the Playhouse; J. Barry -- PART 3: HOW CONTEMPORARIES READ WITCHCRAFT -- Circling the Devil: Witch-doctors and Magic Healers in Early Modern Lorraine; R. Briggs -- Witchcraft as Metaphor: Infanticide and its Translations in Aragon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; M. Tausiet -- Witchcraft and Forensic Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Germany; T. Robisheaux -- Reasoning with Unreason: Visions, Witchcraft and Madness in Early Modern England; K. Hodgkin -- Index
DOI:
10.1007/978-0-333-98529-8
URL:
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