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European Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 100.00In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil. This study concentrates on the period between 1300 and 1500 when ideas about witchcraft were being formed and witch-hunting was gathering momentum. It is concerned... more...
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological... more...
Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00Men ? as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed ? are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France. more...
Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 115.00Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments... more...
Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 105.00Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated. more...




