Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Barry, Jonathan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Davies, Owen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Usborne, Cornelie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Θέματα: Europe-History-476-1492.; Europe-History-1492-.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; History of Medieval Europe.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Modern Europe.; Cultural History.; Social History.

This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction; Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies and Cornelie Usborne
• Contested Knowledge: The Historical Anthropologist's Approach to European Witchcraft; Willem de Blécourt
• Witches and Devil's Magic in Austrian Demonological Legends; Christa Agnes Tuczay
• Hanna Dyâb's Witch and the Great Witch Switch; Ruth Bottigheimer
•  The Mirror of the Witches (1600). A German tragedy in context; Rita Voltmer
• Unravelling the Myth and Histories of the Weighing Test at Oudewater: the case of Leentje Williams; Machteld Löwensteyn
• The North Sea as a Crossroads of Witchcraft Beliefs: the limited importance of political boundaries; Hans de Waardt
• "Kind in words and deeds, but false in their hearts". Fear of evil conspiracy in late sixteenth-century Denmark; Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
• "Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschieht" (A dangerous thing in which too much happens easily): The end of village witch-trials in the Saar region; Eva Labouvie
• News from the Invisible World: the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832; Jonathan Barry
• Researching Reverse-Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England; Owen Davies
• The Catechism of Witch Lore in Twentieth-Century Denmark; Gustav Henningsen
• Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia; Mirjam Mencej
• Index.