Male witches in early modern Europe / / Lara Apps and Andrew Gow.
This book critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, England : : Manchester University Press,, 2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Invisible men: the historian and the male witch
- Secondary targets? Male witches on trial
- Tortured confessions: agency and selfhood at stake
- Literally unthinkable? Demonological descriptions of male witches
- Conceptual webs: the gendering of witchcraft
- Conclusion and afterword
- Appendix. Johannes Junius: Bamberg's famous male witch.