Writing witch-hunt histories : : challenging the paradigm / / edited by Marko Nenonen and Raisa Maria Toivo.
This book gives an analytical review of the history of witch-hunt historiography. So far not much attention has been paid to how the European witch-hunts have been studied and explained in some 150 years of academic research on the issue. The history of the approaches and explanations in witch-hunt...
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| Superior document: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 173 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 173. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Challenging the paradigm of witch-hunt historiography / Marko Nenonen and Raisa Maria Toivo
- The dubious history of the witch-hunts / Marko Nenonen
- Images and witchcraft studies: a short history / Charles Zika
- Gender, sex and cultures of trouble in witchcraft studies: European historiography with special reference to Finland / Raisa Maria Toivo
- Russian witchcraft on trial: historiography and methodology for studying Russian witches / Marianna G. Muravyeva
- Witchcraft and ethnicity: a critical perspective on Sami shamanism in seventeenth-century northern Norway / Rune Blix Hagen
- Topics of persecution: witchcraft historiography in the Iberian world / Gunnar W. Knutsen
- Witchcraft and modernity / Ronald Hutton.