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050 00 $aBF1571$b.O94 2013
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245 04 $aThe Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America /$cedited by Brian P. Levack.
246 30 $aWitchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
300 $axiv, 630 pages ;$c25 cm.
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490 1 $a[Oxford handbooks]
500 $aSeries statement on jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tMagic and its hazards in the late medieval West /$rRichard Kieckhefer --$tFifteenth-century witch beliefs /$rHans Peter Broedel --$tPopular witch beliefs and magical practices /$rEdward Bever --$tDemonologies /$rGerhild Scholz Williams --$tSabbath stories: towards a new history of witches' assemblies /$rWillem de Ble court --$tThe sceptical tradition /$rWalter Stephens --$tWitchcraft in early modern literature /$rDiane Purkiss --$tImages of witchcraft in early modern Europe /$rCharles Zika --$tThe first wave of trials for diabolical witchcraft /$rRichard Kieckhefer --$tThe German witch trials /$rThomas Robisheaux --$tWitchcraft and the local communities: the Rhine-Moselle region /$rRobin Briggs --$tWitchcraft trials in France /$rWilliam Monter --$tWitchcraft and wealth: the case of the Netherlands /$rHans de Waardt --$tWitchcraft prosecutions in Italy /$rTamar Herzig --$tWitchcraft in Iberia /$rWilliam Monter --$tWitchcraft trials in England /$rMalcolm Gaskill --$tWitchcraft in Scotland /$rJulian Goodare --$tWitchcraft in Poland: milk and malefice /$rMichael Ostling --$tWitch-hunting in early modern Hungary /$rIldiko Sz. Kristo f --$tWitchcraft trials in Russia: history and historiography /$rValerie Kivelson --$tWitchcraft criminality and witchcraft research in the Nordic countries /$rRune Blix Hagen --$tWitchcraft in British America /$rRichard Godbeer --$tMerging magical traditions: sorcery and witchcraft in Spanish and Portuguese America /$rIris Gareis --$tThe decline and end of witchcraft prosecutions /$rBrian P. Levack --$tWitchcraft and gender in early modern Europe /$rAlison Rowlands --$tWitchcraft and the law /$rBrian P. Levack --$tSixteenth-century religious reform and the witch-hunts /$rGary K. Waite --$tOn the neuropsychological origins of witchcraft cognition: the geographic and economic variable /$rOscar Di Simplicio --$tPolitics, state-building, and witch-hunting /$rJohannes Dillinger --$tScience and witchcraft ; Medicine and witchcraft /$rPeter Elmer --$tDemonic possession, exorcism, and witchcraft /$rSarah Ferber.
520 $aThe essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
650 0 $aWitch hunting$xHistory.
650 0 $aTrials (Witchcraft)$xHistory.
650 0 $aWitchcraft$xHistory.
700 1 $aLevack, Brian P.,$eeditor.
830 0 $aOxford handbooks.
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