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The witchcraft reader
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
2002
Language
English
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From the Book
General Introduction / Darren Oldridge
Pt. 1. Mediaeval Origins
1. Witch Trials in Mediaeval Europe / Richard Kieckhefer
2. Demonization of Mediaeval Heretics / Norman Cohn
Pt. 2. Witchcraft, Magic and Culture
3. Experience of Bewitchment / Robin Briggs
4. Weather, Hunger and Fear: Origins of the European Witch-Hunts in Climate, Society and Mentality / Wolfgang Behringer
5. Sociology of Jura Witchcraft / E. William Monter
6. Witchcraft Narratives and Folklore Motifs in Southern Italy / David Gentilcore
Pt. 3. Idea of a Witch Cult
7. Heartland of the Witchcraze / H. C. Erik Midelfort
8. Deciphering the Witches' Sabbat / Carlo Ginzburg
9. Alternative World of the Witches' Sabbat / Eva Pocs
10. Satanic Myths and Cultural Realities / Robert Muchembled
11. Inversion, Misrule and the Meaning of Witchcraft / Stuart Clark
Pt. 4. Witchcraft and the Reformation
12. Protestant Witchcraft, Catholic Witchcraft / Stuart Clark
13. Confessional Identity and Magic in the Late Sixteenth Century: Jakob Bithner and Witchcraft in Styria / Edmund Kern
14. Between the Devil and the Inquisitor: Anabaptists, Diabolical Conspiracies and Magical Beliefs / Gary K. Waite
Pt. 5. Witchcraft, the State and Social Control
15. Crime of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe / Christina Larner
16. State-Building and Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe / Brian Levack
Pt. 6. Witchcraft, Possession and the Devil
17. Devil in Renaissance France / David Nicholls
18. Devil and the German People / H. C. Erik Midelfort
19. Divine Apparition or Demonic Possession? / Moshe Sluhovsky
Pt. 7. Witchcraft and Gender
20. Was Witch-Hunting Woman-Hunting? / Christina Larner
21. Patriarchal Reconstruction and Witch-Hunting / Marianne Hester
22. Women, Witchcraft and the Legal Process / Jim Sharpe
23. Women: Witches and Witnesses / Clive Holmes
Pt. 8. Reading Confessions
24. Oedipus and the Devil / Lyndal Roper
25. Witchcraft and Power in Early Modern England: The Case of Margaret Modre / Malcolm Gaskill
26. Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women's Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England / Louise Jackson
Pt. 9. Decline of Witchcraft
27. End of Witch Trials / Brian Levack
28. Decline of Witches and the Rise of Vampires / Gabor Klaniczay
29. Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London / Owen Davies
Pt. 10. New Witch-Hunt?
30. Occult Survivors: The Making of a Myth / Philip Jenkins and Daniel Maier-Katkin
31. Wish Not to Know / Patrick Casement.
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