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9781403911766

Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography

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  • ISBN13:

    9781403911766

  • ISBN10:

    1403911762

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-06-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

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 developments in historical theory in relation to the study of the history of witchcraft, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts to provide a much-needed overview of the area.

Author Biography

Jonathan Barry is with the University of Exeter. Owen Davies is with the Department of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire.

Table of Contents

Introduction; J.Barry & O.Davies * The Contemporary Historical Debate 1400-1800; P.Maxwell-Stuart * The Nineteenth-Century: Medievalism and Witchcraft 1800-1914; C.Tuczay * The Reality of Witchcults Reasserted: Fertility and Satanism; J.Wood * The Social Anthropology of Witchcraft: Rationality and Function of Beliefs; R.Jenkins * Culture Wars: Religion and Acculturation; M.Nenomen * Crime and the Law; B.Levack * Science and Medicine; P.Elmer * Gender, Mind and Body: Feminism and Psychoanalysis; K.Hodgkin * Thinking Witchcraft: The Linguistic Turn and Intellectual History; M.Gibson * The Return of the Supernatural; W.de Blecourt * Modernity and Post-Modernity; J.Pearson
Introduction; J.Barry & O.Davies * The Contemporary Historical Debate 1400-1800; P.Maxwell-Stuart * The Nineteenth-Century: Medievalism and Witchcraft 1800-1914; C.Tuczay * The Reality of Witchcults Reasserted: Fertility and Satanism; J.Wood * The Social Anthropology of Witchcraft: Rationality and Function of Beliefs; R.Jenkins * Culture Wars: Religion and Acculturation; M.Nenomen * Crime and the Law; B.Levack * Science and Medicine; P.Elmer * Gender, Mind and Body: Feminism and Psychoanalysis; K.Hodgkin * Thinking Witchcraft: The Linguistic Turn and Intellectual History; M.Gibson * The Return of the Supernatural; W.de Blecourt * Modernity and Post-Modernity; J.Pearson

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