Overview
- Contains new research on an increasingly popular topic Contributors include many scholars who are wellrespected in this field, both historians and literature specialists An exciting new approach to the study of witchcraft and early modern culture
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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History and Story in Witchcraft Trials
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How Contemporaries Read Witchcraft
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Back Matter
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About this book
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the 'languages' of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
STUART CLARK is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Languages of Witchcraft
Book Subtitle: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture
Editors: Stuart Clark
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-98529-8
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 241
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Social History