Witchcraft in Continental Europe: New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology

by Levack,Brian P.

• ISBN13: 9780815336716
• ISBN10: 0815336713
• 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

Introduction	vii
Satan in Europe: The Geography of the Witch Hunts	2	(33)
Richard M. Golden
Sweden: The Mass Burnings (1668-1676)	35	(34)
Bengt Ankarloo
``Envious are all the People, Witches Watch at Every Gate'': Finnish Witches and Witch Trials in the Seventeenth Century	69	(16)
Marko Nenonen
The Making of a Witch: The Guilty Triangle-as Illustrated in the Case against Elline Klokkers of Gjerpen	85	(24)
Thor Hall
Herbert W.L. Burhenn
The Kirkjubol Affair: A Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Witchcraft Case Analyzed	109	(28)
R. C. Ellison
Witchcraft in the Northern Netherlands	137	(18)
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
The European Witchcraft Debate and the Dutch variant	155	(14)
Marijke, Gijswijt-Hofstra
Witch-Hunting in Hungary: Social or Cultural Tensions?	169	(24)
Gabor Klaniczay
Witch Beliefs and Witch Hunting in Central and Eastern Europe	193	(8)
Gabor Klaniczay
Eva Pocs
``Wise Women'', Sinners, and the Poor: The Social Background in a 16th-18th-Century Calvinist City of Eastern Hungary	201	(28)
Ildiko Kristof
Witchcraft in the Central Balkans I: Characteristics of Witches	229	(16)
T. P. Vukanovic
The Role of the Episcopal Tribunal of Novara in the Suppression of Heresy and Witchcraft, 1563-1615	245	(19)
Thomas Deutscher
The Jew as Witch: Displaced Aggression and the Myth of the Santo Nino de La Guardia	264	(11)
Stephen Haliczer
The Visions of a Guachichil Witch in 1599: A Window on the Subjugation of Mexico's Hunter-Gatherers	275	(24)
Ruth Behar
The Origins of the Witch-Craze in the Alps	299	(22)
Arno Borst
A Quantitative Evaluation of Demographic, Gender, and Social Transformation Theories of the Rise of European Witch Hunting	321	(30)
Philip Smith
Weather, Hunger, and Fear: The Origins of the European Witch Prosecutions in Climate, Society, and Mentality	351	(28)
Wolfgang Behringer
Witches and Persecuting Societies	379	(13)
J.A. Sharpe
State-Building and Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe	392	(21)
Brian P. Levack
The Devil's Children: Child Witch-Trials in Early Modern Germany	413	(20)
Robert Walinski-Kiehl
Evil Imaginings and Fantasies: Child Witches and the End of the Witch-Craze	433	(34)
Lyndal Roper
The persecution of Witches as Restoration of Order: the Case of Germany, 1590s-1650s	467	(15)
Hartmut Lehmann
Godly States: Confessional Conflict and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Germany	482	(13)
Robert S Walinski-Kiehl
Acknowledgments	495