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Author:   Brian P. Levack
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9780815336730

ISBN 10:   081533673
Pages:   476
Publication Date:   14 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Megged, Amos. Magic, Popular Medicine and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Mexico: The Case of Isobel de Montoya. Social History 19 (1994). Klaniczay, Gábor. Shamanistic Elements in Central European Witchcraft. In Mihály Hoppál, ed., Shamanism in Eurasia, (Göttingen, Germany: 1984). de Blécourt, Willem. Witch Doctors, Soothsayers and Priests on Cunning Folk in European Historiography and Tradition. Social History 19 (1994). O'Neil, Mary. Magical Healing, Love Magic and the Inquisition in Late Sixteenth-Century Modena. In Stephen Haliczar, ed., Inquisition and Society in Early Modern Europe (Totowa, NJ: 1987). Davies, Owen. Healing Charms in Use in England and Wales, 1700-1950. Folklore 107 (1996). Sebald, Hans. Shaman, Healer, Witch. Comparing Shamanism with Franconian Folk Magic. Ethnologia Europaea 14 (1984). Alver, Bente Gullveig and Torunn Selberg. Folk Medicine as Part of a Larger Concept Complex. Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore 43 (1987). Cassar, P. Healing by Sorcery in 17th and 18th Century Malta. St. Lukes Hospital Gaz. (Guardamangia) 11 (1976). Gentilcore, David. The Church, the Devil and the Healing Activities of Living Saints in the Kingdom of Naples After the Council of Trent. In Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham, eds., Medicine and the Reformation (London, UK: Routledge, 1993). Fox, Sylvia. Witch or Wise-Woman? Women as Healers Throughout the Ages. Jaarboek Liturgie Onderzoek 8 (1992). Cave, Alfred A. Indian Shamans and English Witches in Seventeenth-Century New England. Essex Institute Historical Collections 128 (1992). Hicks, David. On Syphilis and Witchcraft, Current Anthropology 36 (1985). Waardt, Hans de, From Cunning Man to Natural Healer. In J.M.W. Binneveld and Rudolf Dekker, eds., Curing and Insuring. Essays on Illness in Past Times: The Netherlands, Belgium, England and Italy, 16th-20th Centuries (Hilversum, the Netherlands: Verloren, 1992). Harley, David. Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife Witch. Social History of Medicine 3 (1990). Rubinger, Catherine. Witch or Saint: Absolutes in the French 18th Century Novel. Atlantis 11 (1986).

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Brian P. Levack is John Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A former Guggenheim Fellow, his other writings on witchcraft include Articleson Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (1992), TheWitch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1995), and Witchcraftand Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies (1999). Dr. Levack is also a specialist in the history of early modern England and Scotland, and has written several books on the subject.

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