Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
- Book ID:
- 8387
- Title:
- Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
- Author:
- 'Barry, Jonathan', 'Bottigheimer, Ruth B.', 'Davies, Owen', 'De Blecourt, Willem', 'de Waardt, Hans', 'Henningsen, Gustav', 'Labouvie, Eva', 'Lowensteyn, Machteld', 'Mencej, Mirjam', 'Nyholm Kallestrup, Louise', 'Tuczay, Christa Agnes', 'VARIOUS', 'Voltmer, Rita'
- ISBN number:
- 9783319637839
- Publisher name:
- Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature)
- Place of publication:
- Cham, Switzerland
- Edition number:
- 1st
- Book type:
- Hardback
- First edition date:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 283
- Dewey decimal number:
- 133.4309 VAR
- Dust jacket:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Photographs:
- No
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Bibliography:
- No
- Height (cm):
- 20.5
- Width (cm):
- 15.5
- Notes:
A Europe-wide exploration of witchcraft in its cultural context, building on the pioneering approach of Willem de Blecourt.
As the blurb accurately puts it, the essays "share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels."
The essay on the witch weighing test at Oudewater is particularly relevant to the Museum's witch weighing chair, Museum Object No. 951.
Part of the series Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic.
CONTENTS:
Contested Knowledge: A Historical Anthropologist’s Approach to European Witchcraft
Blécourt, Willem
Witches and Devil’s Magic in Austrian Demonological Legends
Tuczay, Christa Agnes
Hanna Dyâb’s Witch and the Great Witch Shift
Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
The Mirror of the Witches (1600): A German Baroque Tragedy in Context
Voltmer, Rita
Unravelling the Myth and Histories of the Weighing Test at Oudewater: The Case of Leentje Willems
Löwensteyn, Machteld
The North Sea as a Crossroads of Witchcraft Beliefs: The Limited Importance of Political Boundaries
Waardt, Hans
“Kind in Words and Deeds, but False in Their Hearts”: Fear of Evil Conspiracy in Late-Sixteenth-Century Denmark
Kallestrup, Louise Nyholm
“Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschieht” (A Dangerous Thing in Which Too Much Happens Easily). The End of Village Witch Trials in the Saar Region
Labouvie, Eva
News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660–1832
Barry, Jonathan
Researching Reverse Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England
Davies, Owen
The Catechism of Witch Lore in Twentieth-Century Denmark
Henningsen, Gustav
Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia
Mencej, Mirjam