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- (-), Blecourt, Willem de
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave 2004.
Manchester : [2018]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Manchester Religious Studies
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427392806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction: beyond the witch trials
  • Marking (dis)order: witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland
  • Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia: magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua
  • From illusion to disenchantment: Feijoo versus the ‘falsely possessed’ in eighteenth-century Spain
  • Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden
  • Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland
  • The Devil’s pact: a male strategy
  • Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol
  • ‘Evil people’: a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients
  • The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic
  • The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany
  • Index.