Title Details: | |
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe |
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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and witchcraft persecutions began to intensify, to the 18th century, when legislation on witchcraft began to be repealed or significantly modified, a process that had already been manifested in the courtrooms since the mid-17th century.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.
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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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