Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography
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Product details:
- Edition number 2007
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 10 May 2007
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9781403911766
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 335 g
- Language English
- Illustrations X, 248 p. 0
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Short description:
Offering a survey of Witchcraft historiography by using a chronological structure, this book draws on contributions from experts in the field to provide an overview of the area.
MoreLong description:
This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
'Eleven distinguished scholars have contributed to this volume of essays, each surveying the key works that exemplify a particular way of approaching the multi-faceted problem of interpreting the history of witchcraft and witch trials...provides excellent signposts through a very tangled forest.' -Jacqueline Simpson, Folklore
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; J.Barry & O.Davies The Contemporary Historical Debate 1400-1800; P.G.Maxwell-Stuart Science, Medicine and Witchcraft; P.Elmer The Nineteenth-Century: Medievalism and Witchcraft 1800-1914; C.Tuczay The Reality of Witchcults Reasserted: Fertility and Satanism; J.Wood The Witch-Craze as Holocaust: The Rise of Persecuting Societies; R.M.Toivo Culture Wars: Religion and Acculturation; M.Nenonen The Return of the Supernatural; W.de Blecourt Crime and the Law; B.P.Levack Thinking Witchcraft: The Linguistic Turn and Intellectual History; M.Gibson Gender, Mind and Body: Feminism and Psychoanalysis; K.Hodgkin The Social Anthropology of Witchcraft: Rationality and Function of Beliefs; R.Jenkins Writing Witchcraft: The Historian's History, the Practioner's Past; J.Pearson-Overend
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