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Author:   Johannes Dillinger
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9781138782204

ISBN 10:   1138782203
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   24 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Editor’s Preface; Part 1: Witches in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages; Witches in Greece and Rome; Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology in the Bible, Ancient Judaism and Earliest Christianity; Demons and Witchcraft in the Early Church; Witchcraft and Demonology in the Middle Ages; The Rise of the Witchcraft Doctrine; Part 2: The Early Modern Witch Hunts: Regions and Issues; Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy; Germany – ""the Mother of the Witches""; Witch Hunts in the Low Countries (1450-1685); Witch Hunts in France; Witch Hunting in Spain: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Witch Hunts in Britain; Witchcraft in Scandinavia; Witch Hunts in Eastern Central Europe; Witch Hunts in Eastern Europe; The Salem Witch Hunt; Witchcraft and the Early Modern Media; Witchcraft and Gender; Child-Witches; Witchcraft in Everyday Life; The Interrelationship of Magic and Witchcraft; Part 3: Modern Concepts of Witches; Child Eaters and Other Problems of Democracy: Witchcraft and the American Frontier; Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe; Shifting Figures of the Witch in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Wicca; Disciples of Hell: The History of Satanism; Part 4: Witches and the Arts; Witchcraft and Early Modern Art (1450-1550); The Witch Figure in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature; Where Have All the Witches Gone? The Disappearing Witch and Children’s Literature; Witchcraft in Film"

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'The history of witchcraft, once narrowly focused on early modern Europe, now ranges widely across time and territory, and reaches deeply into every nook and cranny of human activity and experience. This diverse collection of essays, by leading experts in their fields, both reflects this remarkable historiographical development and does full justice to the importance of the subject in the twenty-first century.' Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia

'The history of witchcraft, once narrowly focused on early modern Europe, now ranges widely across time and territory, and reaches deeply into every nook and cranny of human activity and experience. This diverse collection of essays, by leading experts in their fields, both reflects this remarkable historiographical development and does full justice to the importance of the subject in the twenty-first century.' Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia

Author Information

Johannes Dillinger is Professor of Early Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He has published widely on witchcraft and magic, political crime, and constitutional history. His previous publications include Hexen und Magie (2018) and Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America (2012).

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