Beyond the witch trials witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe

Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Davies, Owen, 1969- (-), Blécourt, Willem de
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave 2004.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44538418*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : beyond the witch trials / Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt
  • Marking (dis)order : witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland / Raisa Maria Toivo
  • Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia : magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua / Augusto Ferraiuolo
  • From illusion to disenchantment : Feijoo versus the 'falsely possessed' in eighteenth-century Spain / María Tausiet
  • Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden. The aftermath of the witch-hunt in Dalarna / Marie Lennersand ; The superstitious other / Linda Oja
  • Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland / Peter Maxwell-Stuart
  • The Devil's pact : a male strategy / Soili-Maria Olli
  • Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol / Jonathan Barry
  • 'Evil people' : a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients / Willem de Blécourt
  • The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic / Brian Hoggard
  • The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany. The supernatural and the development of print culture / Sabine Doering-Manteuffel ; Grimoires and the transmission of magical knowledge / Stephan Bachter.