Demonology, Religion, and Witchcraft: New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology

by Levack,Brian P.

• ISBN13: 9780815336693
• ISBN10: 0815336691
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set,Articles onWitchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

Table of Contents

Kieckhefer, Richard. "The Holy and the Unholy: Sainthood, Witchcraft, and Magic in Late Medieval Europe." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 24 (1994). Clark, Stuart. "The Rational Witchfinder: Conscience, Demonological Naturalism and Popular Superstitions." In Steven Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi, and Maurice Slawinski eds., Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe (Manchester, UK and New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 1991). Kieckhefer, Richard. "The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic." American Historical Review 99 (1994). Mormando, Franco. "Bernardino of Siena, Popular Preacher and Witch-Hunter: A 1426 Witch Trial in Rome." Fifteenth-Century Studies 24 (1998). Wilson, Eric. "Institors of Innsbruck: Heinrich Institoris, the Summis Desiderantes and the Brixen Witch Trial of 1485." In R. Scribner and T. Johnson, eds.,Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe 1400-1800" (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996). Brauner, Sigrid. "Martin Luther on Witchcraft: A True Reformer?" In Jean R. Brink, Allison P. Coudert, and Maryanne C. Horowitz eds., The Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1989). Clark, Stuart. "Protestant Demonology: Sin, Superstition and Society (c.1520-c.1630." In B. Ankarloo and G. Henningsen, eds., Early Modern European Witchcraft (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990). Roper, Lyndal. "Magic and the Theology of the Body: Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg." In Charles Zika eds., No Gods Except Me: Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200-1600 (Melbourne, 1991). Rowlands, Alison. "Witchcraft and Popular Religion in Early Modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber." In R. Scribner and T. Johnson eds., Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe 1400-1800 (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996). Carol, Baroja Julio. "Witchcraft and Catholic Theology." In B. Ankarloo and G. Henningsen, eds., Early Modern European Witchcraft (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990). Gijswijt, Hofstra "Witchcraft and Tolerance: The Dutch Case." Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 37 (1991-2). Zika, Charles. "The Devil's Hoodwink: Seeing and Believing in the World of Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft." In Charles Zika eds., No Gods Except Me: Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200-1600 (Melbourne, 1991). Elmer, Peter. "'Saints or Sorcerers': Quakerism, Demonology and the Decline of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England." In J. Barry, et al., eds., Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, (Cambridge, UK: 1996). Louise, Yeoman. "The Devil as Doctor: Witchcraft, Wodrow and the Wider World." Scottish Archives 1 (1995). Reis, Elizabeth. "Witches, Sinners, and the Underside of Covenant Theology." Essex Institute Historical Collections 129 (1993). Cervantes, Fernando. "The Devil's Encounter with America." In J. Barry, et al., eds., Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, (Cambridge, UK: 1996). Gildrie, Richard P. "Visions of Evil: Popular Culture, Puritanism and the Massachusetts Witchcraft Crisis of 1692." Journal of American Culture 8 (1985). Cervantes, Fernando. "The Devils of Queretaro: Skepticism and Credulity in Late Seventeenth-Century Mexico."Past & Present 130 (1991). Crouzet, Denis, "A Woman and the Devil: Possession and Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France." In Michael Wolfe, ed., Changing Identities in Early Modern France (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997). Waite, G.K. "Man is a Devil to Himself." David Joris and the Rise of a Skeptical Tradition Towards the Devil in Early Modern Netherlands, 1540-1600, Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis 75 (1995). Attfield, Robin. "Balthasar Bekker and the Decline of the Witch-Craze: The Old Demonology and the New Philosophy." Annals of Science 42 (1985).