Overview
- Contributes to the growing scholarship in the history of the emotions, as well as the history of witchcraft and magic
- Provides a much-needed bridge between these two areas of study
- Multidisciplinary and wide-ranging in scope
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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In Representation
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On Trial
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About this book
With examples ranging from Russia to New England, Germany to Cameroon, chapters cover the representation of emotional witches in demonology and art; the gendering of witchcraft as female envy or male rage; witchcraft as a form of bullying and witchcraft accusation as a form of therapy; love magic and demon-lovers; and the affective memorialization of the “Burning Times” among contemporary Pagan feminists. Wide-ranging and methodologically diverse, the book is appropriate for scholars of witchcraft, gender, and emotions; for graduate or undergraduate courses, and for the interested general reader.
Reviews
“Emotions in the History of Witchcraft is a collection of unusual quality and significance that successfully unites two hitherto separate fields to the enormous enrichment of both. … The collection is essential reading for anyone working within the new sub-discipline of the history of the emotions or the more venerable and ever-vibrant field of witchcraft studies.” (James Brown, European History Quarterly, Vol. 47 (4), 2017)
“A pioneering as well as profound collection of essays written by leaders in the field who connect the study of witchcraft to cutting edge approaches to the history of emotions. I recommend it to everyone interested in the period.” (Professor Ulinka Rublack, University of Cambridge, UK, author of “The Astronomer and the Witch”)
“The contributors to this volume have boldly charted out new and exciting approaches to witchcraft and the emotions. While ranging across familiar topics like demonologies, trials and comparative treatments of witchcraft, the contributors draw prudently and creatively on insights from anthropology, the neurosciences and evolutionary psychology, feminist theory, and the new theoretical approaches to the history of emotions. In bringing witchcraft studies into the new history of emotions these scholars show emotions not just as interior feelings or cerebral textual and rhetorical devices, but as disturbing and violent actions. This ismulti-disciplinary work at its most creative and incisive. A work that will instantly become the starting point for all future discussions of witchcraft and the emotions.” (Professor Thomas Robisheaux, Duke University, USA, author of “The Last Witch of Langenburg”)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laura Kounine is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex, and was previously a research fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe (2016) and author of the forthcoming Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany.
Michael Ostling is Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University, USA, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Between the Devil and the Host (2011) and editor of the forthcoming Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emotions in the History of Witchcraft
Editors: Laura Kounine, Michael Ostling
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52903-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52902-2Published: 02 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52903-9Published: 09 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-5958
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5966
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 321
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural History, Emotion, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Psychology, Social History