Male witches in early modern Europe
This book critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, England :
Manchester University Press
2003
2003 |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427397406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Invisible men: the historian and the male witch
- Secondary targets? Male witches on trial
- Tortured confessions: agency and selfhood at stake
- Literally unthinkable? Demonological descriptions of male witches
- Conceptual webs: the gendering of witchcraft
- Conclusion and afterword
- Appendix. Johannes Junius: Bamberg's famous male witch.
