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Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Barry

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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  2. Owen Davies

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Owen Davies, Jonathan Barry
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Contemporary Historical Debate, 1400–1750

    • Peter Maxwell-Stuart
    Pages 11-32

  4. Science, Medicine and Witchcraft

    • Peter Elmer
    Pages 33-51

  5. The Nineteenth Century: Medievalism and Witchcraft

    • Christa Tuczay
    Pages 52-68

  6. The Reality of Witch Cults Reasserted: Fertility and Satanism

    • Juliette Wood
    Pages 69-89

  7. The Witch-Craze as Holocaust: The Rise of Persecuting Societies

    • Raisa Maria Toivo
    Pages 90-107

  8. Culture Wars: State, Religion and Popular Culture in Europe, 1400–1800

    • Marko Nenonen
    Pages 108-124

  9. The Return of the Sabbat: Mental Archaeologies, Conjectural Histories or Political Mythologies?

    • Willem De Blécourt
    Pages 125-145

  10. Crime and the Law

    • Brian P. Levack
    Pages 146-163

  11. Thinking Witchcraft: Language, Literature and Intellectual History

    • Marion Gibson
    Pages 164-181

  12. Gender, Mind and Body: Feminism and Psychoanalysis

    • Katharine Hodgkin
    Pages 182-202

  13. Continuity and Change: Social Science Perspectives on European Witchcraft

    • Richard Jenkins
    Pages 203-224

  14. Writing Witchcraft: The Historians’ History, The Practitioners’ Past

    • Jo Pearson
    Pages 225-241

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 242-248
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'Eleven distinguished scholars have contributed to this volume of essays, each surveying the key works that exemplify a particular way of approaching the multi-faceted problem of interpreting the history of witchcraft and witch trials...provides excellent signposts through a very tangled forest.' -Jacqueline Simpson, Folklore

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Jonathan Barry

  • University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Owen Davies

About the editors

WILLEM DE BLÉCOURT Lecturer, University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK PETER ELMER Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, The Open University, UK MARION GIBSON Lecturer in English Literature, University of Exeter, UK KATHERINE HODGKIN Principal Lecturer in History, University of East London, UK RICHARD JENKINS Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK BRIAN P. LEVACK John Green Regents Professor in History, University of Texas, USA P. G. MAXWELL-STUART Honorary Lecturer in History University of St. Andrews, UK MARKO NENONEN Assistant Professor in History, University of Tampere, Finland JO PEARSON Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK RAISA MARIA TOIVO Lecturer in History, University of Tampere, Finland CHRISTA TUCZAY Lecturer in Medieval History and Literature, University of Vienna, Austria JULIETTE WOOD Associate Lecturer in the Department of Welsh, University of Cardiff, UK

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