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Author:   A. Rowlands
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2009
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349363117

ISBN 10:   1349363111
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   22 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Preface Series Forward Notes on Contributors Not the 'Usual Suspects'? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe; A.Rowlands Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine; R.Briggs Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire; R.Schulte Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (16th-17th Centuries); R.Voltmer Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstätt; J.Durrant Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly? O.Di Simplicio Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland; J.Goodare Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England; M.Gaskill The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period; W.de Blécourt Possession and the Sexes; S.Ferber Index

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'There are two popular modern conceptions about the witchcraft trials of the early modern period, the idea that they were a sort of gender war launched by patriarchal males against women, and an older idea that they represented the hangover from medieval superstition. This book explicitly challenges the former, and serves to remind us even more clearly how false the latter is.' - The Magonia Review of Books

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WILLEM DE BLÉCOURT Honorary Research Fellow, the Huizinga Institute and the Meertens Institute, The Netherlands ROBIN BRIGGS Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, UK OSCAR DI SIMPLICIO former Professor of Modern History, the University of Florence, Italy JONATHAN DURRANT Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, the University of Glamorgan, UK SARAH FERBER Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Queensland, Australia. MALCOLM GASKILL Reader in Early Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK JULIAN GOODARE Reader in Scottish History, the University of Edinburgh, UK ALISON ROWLANDS Senior Lecturer in European History, the University of Essex, UK ROLF SCHULTE Teaching Fellow, the University of Kiel, Germany RITA VOLTMER Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Pre-Modern History, the University of Trier, Germany

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