Beyond the witch trials : : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe / / edited by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt.
Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader wit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2018. ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Manchester Religious Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Introduction: beyond the witch trials
- Marking (dis)order: witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland
- Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia: magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua
- From illusion to disenchantment: Feijoo versus the ‘falsely possessed’ in eighteenth-century Spain
- Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden
- Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland
- The Devil’s pact: a male strategy
- Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol
- ‘Evil people’: a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients
- The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic
- The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany
- Index.