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Werewolf Histories
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Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- 1 The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology
- 2 Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-Men in the Graeco-Roman World
- 3 Into the Wild Old Norse Stories of Animal Men
- 4 Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape-Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe
- Interlude: Wolf-Riding
- 5 What about Some Good Wether? Witches and Werewolves in Sixteenth-Century Italy
- 6 Species, Phantasia, Raison: Werewolves and Shape-Shifters in Demonological Literature
- 7 The Judges Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphosis in the Peripheries of Western Europe
- 8 The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany
- Interlude: The Shepherd of Wolves
- 9 Estonian Werewolf History
- 10 The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark
- 11 Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions
- Index
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