This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2007

ISBN

9780230593480

Topic

History

Subtopic

Social History

Index

History

Cover
contents
notes on contributors
1 introduction
2 the contemporary historical debate, 1400–1750
3 science, medicine and witchcraft
4 the nineteenth century: medievalism and witchcraft
5 the reality of witch cults reasserted: fertility and satanism
6 the witch-craze as holocaust: the rise of persecuting societies
7 culture wars: state, religion and popular culture in europe, 1400–1800
8 the return of the sabbat: mental archaeologies, conjectural histories or political mythologies?
9 crime and the law
10 thinking witchcraft: language, literature and intellectual history
11 gender, mind and body: feminism and psychoanalysis
12 continuity and change: social science perspectives on european witchcraft
13 writing witchcraft: the historians’ history, the practitioners’ past
index