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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Reality of Maleficium
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The Realities of Diabolism
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The Realities of Beneficent Magic
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Repression and Reality
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Reviews
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009
Short listed for the Katharine Briggs Award 2009
"Bever has done a great service in bringing an extensive and relevant medical literature into witchcraft studies...a book which bravely challenges so many received ideas can only be good for us all." - European History Quarterly
"Bever's book is an exciting and provocative contribution to the study of magic and witchcraft. Reaching far beyond the usual material of history into the disciplines of psychology and neurophysiology, Bever has drawn conclusions both stunning and profound in a work that will move the field forward as surely as it will inspire debate." - Laura Strokes, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Approaches such as Bever's are a vast improvement over an earlier approach to the witchcraft trials as manifestations of superstition, priestcraft, and bigotry that would flee when exposed to the light of science." - Chas S. Clifton, Nova Religio: TheJournal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
Book Subtitle: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life
Authors: Edward Bever
Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582118
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9781-4Published: 11 June 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54664-0Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58211-8Published: 11 June 2008
Series ISSN: 2731-5630
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 627
Topics: European History, Cultural History, Modern History, Social History, Comparative Religion, History of Early Modern Europe