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...

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