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Title Details:
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Other Titles: A social and cultural history
Authors: Dialeti, Androniki
Subject: LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > WITCHCRAFT
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > MODERN HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > MEDIEVAL HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > HISTORIOGRAPHY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > HISTORY OF COUNTRIES > EUROPE, MEDITERRANEAN, MIDDLE EAST
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > CULTURAL HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART THEORY > ART HISTORY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY > FEMINIST/GENDER STUDIES
Keywords:
History
Europe
Witchcraft
Early Modernity
Historiography
Gender
Law
Persecutions
Religion
Politics
Society
Culture
Science
Body
Sexuality
Description:
Abstract:
This study offers a detailed overview of witchcraft beliefs and the witch hunt in Europe from the 15th century, when the “demonic imagery” was gradually constructed and witchcraft persecutions began to intensify, to the 18th century, when legislation on witchcraft began to be repealed or significantly modified, a process that had already been manifested in the courtrooms since the mid-17th century. The study examines both the witchcraft imagery and witchcraft as an everyday practice while also focusing on the interaction between witchcraft discourses, persecutions and community conflicts that often triggered the witch hunt. Thus, this book is about not one but many “witches”: the heretic that attended the witches’ Sabbath, the “evil neighbour” who caused disease and death, the practitioner or “professional of witchcraft” who cured the body or the soul, the accused, who trapped in the webs of the law, struggled to defend herself through narratives of guilt or innocence, and the witch as a construction of historiography. The present study does not conceive magic as the opposite of science or religion. Rather, ideas on magic and witchcraft are studied in tandem with other fields of knowledge, such as theology, science, political theory, law, oral tradition, travel literature, fiction, and the art.
Linguistic Editors: Bonanos, Manos
Graphic Editors: Kollia, Zoe
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 26-06-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-036-2
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-268
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9818
Bibliographic Reference: Dialeti, A. (2023). Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-268
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Witchcraft in Europe: chronology and geography, definitions and preliminary observations
2. Witchcraft and the law: an exceptional crime
3. Witchcraft, religion, science: learned ideas and popular beliefs
4. The Witches’ Sabbath: an inverted, hybrid and posthuman world
5. Gender, the body and sexuality in demonological imagery
6. Witchcraft and politics: discourses and practices of power
7. From the large scale to Microhistory: witchcraft and community conflicts
8. Taming the supernatural: witchcraft as an everyday practice
9. Let’s hear our sources: historians before the “archives of repression”
10. Interrogating judicial records: the voice of the “witch” and other voices
11. Comprehensive bibliography
Number of pages 330
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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