Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies. Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits : : Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Kathryn A. Edwards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Dean Phillip,; Briggs, Robin,; Edwards, Kathryn A.,; Ferber, Sarah,; Gordon, Bruce,; Jacobson Schutte, Anne,; Jacques-Lefèvre, Nicole,; Krampl, Ulrike,; Lederer, David,; Midelfort, H. C. Erik,; Nalle, Sara T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Edwards, Kathryn A.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2002]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 62
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Expanding the Analysis of Traditional Belief -- DANGEROUS SPIRITS Shapeshifting, Apparitions, and Fantasy in Lorraine Witchcraft Trials -- LIVING WITH THE DEAD. Ghosts in Early Modern Bavaria -- REFORMED OR RECYCLED ? Possession and Exorcism in the Sacramental Life of Early Modern France -- REVISITING EL ENCUBIERTO Navigating between Visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth -- WORMS AND THE JEWS Jews, Magic, and Community in Seventeenth-Century Worms -- ASMODEA A Nun-Witch in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany -- WHEN WITCHES BECAME FALSE Séducteurs and Crédules Confront the Paris Police at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century -- GOD KILLED SAUL Heinrich Bullinger and Jacob Ruef on the Power of the Devil -- SUCH AN IMPURE , CRUEL , AND SAVAGE BEAST… Images of the Werewolf in Demonological Works -- CHARCOT, FREUD, AND THE DEMONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX