Witches of the North : Scotland and Finnmark / / by Liv Helene Willumsen.
Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statis...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions,
v. 170 Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 170. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9004252924 |
| ISSN: | 1573-4188 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Liv Helene Willumsen. |