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Witchcraft narratives in Germany : Rothenburg 1561-1652
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ISBN: 1781700168 128073387X 9786610733873 1847790240 1417576375 9781526137982 9781781700167 9781847790248 9781417576371 6610733872 1526137984 0719052599 9780719052590 9781280733871 184779520X 9781847795205 Year: 2003 Publisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,

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This text looks at why witch-trials failed to escalate into ""witch-crazes"" in certain parts of early modern Europe. Using the legal records of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the book explores the social and psychological conflicts behind the making of accusations and confessions of witchcraft.


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Religion and magic in western culture
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ISBN: 9789004298958 9004298959 9789004317567 9004317562 Year: 2016 Volume: 6 Publisher: Boston

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In the history of Western culture, theology, and science, a strict dichotomy exists between religion and magic: religion as the intellectually and morally superior one – magic as the primitive, superstitious, demonic other. The present work aims to break with this tradition, and traces the origin of this dichotomy as well as its many purposes. Whose powers does it serve? Which interests and ideological stakes does it conceal? Moreover, the author proposes a new epistemological framework for the study of magisms as well as their “rehumanisation”, and argues for a rehabilitation of their studies.


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Magic, witchcraft, and religion: an anthropological study of the supernatural
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ISBN: 0874846854 0874848989 Year: 1989 Publisher: Mountain View (Calif.) Mayfield


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Witches of the North : Scotland and Finnmark
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ISSN: 15734188 ISBN: 9789004252912 9789004252929 9004252924 1299691064 9781299691063 9004252916 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 170 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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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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The scourge of demons: possession, lust, and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century Italian convent
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ISBN: 9781580462983 1580462987 9781580467322 1580465641 9786612895036 1580467326 1282895036 Year: 2009 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. University of Rochester Press

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Based primarily on the exhaustive investigation by the Inquisition of Modena, 'The Scourge of Demons' examines this fascinating case in its historical context. The travails of Santa Chiara occurred at a time when Europe witnessed peaks in both witch-hunting and in the numbers of people reputedly possessed by demons. Female religious figures appeared particularly prone to demonic attacks, and Counter-Reformation Church authorities were especially interested in imposing stricter discipline on convents. Watt carefully considers how the nuns of Santa Chiara understood and experienced alleged possession and witchcraft, concluding that Santa Chiara's diabolical troubles and their denouement - involving the actions of nuns, confessors, inquisitorial authorities, and exorcists - were profoundly shaped by the unique confluence of religious, cultural, judicial, and intellectual trends that flourished in the 1630s. Jeffrey R. Watt is professor of history at the University of Mississippi.

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