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Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe

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Editors:
  1. Alison Rowlands

    1. University of Essex, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Not ‘the Usual Suspects’? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe

    • Alison Rowlands
    Pages 1-30

  3. Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine

    • Robin Briggs
    Pages 31-51

  4. Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire

    • Rolf Schulte
    Pages 52-73

  5. Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)

    • Rita Voltmer
    Pages 74-99

  6. Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstätt

    • Jonathan Durrant
    Pages 100-120

  7. Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly?

    • Oscar Di Simplicio
    Pages 121-148

  8. Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland

    • Julian Goodare
    Pages 149-170

  9. Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England

    • Malcolm Gaskill
    Pages 171-190

  10. The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period

    • Willem de Blécourt
    Pages 191-213

  11. Possession and the Sexes

    • Sarah Ferber
    Pages 214-238

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-257
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Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.

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'There are two popular modern conceptions about the witchcraft trials of the early modern period, the idea that they were a sort of gender war launched by patriarchal males against women, and an older idea that they represented the hangover from medieval superstition. This book explicitly challenges the former, and serves to remind us even more clearly how false the latter is.' - The Magonia Review of Books

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Essex, UK

    Alison Rowlands

About the editor

WILLEM DE BLÉCOURT Honorary Research Fellow, the Huizinga Institute and the Meertens Institute, The Netherlands ROBIN BRIGGS Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, UK OSCAR DI SIMPLICIO former Professor of Modern History, the University of Florence, Italy JONATHAN DURRANT Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, the University of Glamorgan, UK SARAH FERBER Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Queensland, Australia. MALCOLM GASKILL Reader in Early Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK JULIAN GOODARE Reader in Scottish History, the University of Edinburgh, UK ALISON ROWLANDS Senior Lecturer in European History, the University of Essex, UK ROLF SCHULTE Teaching Fellow, the University of Kiel, Germany RITA VOLTMER Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Pre-Modern History, the University of Trier, Germany

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