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Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.

Witchcraft --- Witch hunting --- Sorcellerie --- Chasse aux sorcières --- History. --- History --- Histoire

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Esoteric sciences --- Christian dogmatics --- anno 1500-1599 --- Germany --- Witch hunting --- Witchcraft --- Reformation --- Chasse aux sorcières --- Sorcellerie --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- History --- Histoire --- Allemagne --- Religion --- Chasse aux sorcières --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- History.

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Qu'est-ce que la haine ? Comment, de cet affect individuel, peuvent découler des dispositifs de persécution collective ? En quoi l'invention moderne d'une logique de la haine reste-t-elle d'actualité ? Retraçant le phénomène de la chasse aux sorcières qui a marqué la période courant entre le XVe siècle et le XVIIIe siècle, de la Renaissance aux Lumières, Jacob Rogozinski dresse un tableau complet des techniques mises en oeuvre pour désigner puis anéantir les cibles supposées de cette entreprise de purification. S'imposent ainsi la recherche du "stigmate diabolique", l'aveu de la "vérité démoniaque" extorqué sous la torture et l'accusation de "Satan" comme stratège et ennemi absolu menant à l'"anéantissement" du possédé. Tous ces mécanismes d'éradication se retrouveront, sous d'autres noms, dans d'autres circonstances, animant la Terreur jacobine, les procès de Moscou ou encore les plus récentes théories du complot. En analysant ces diverses expériences historiques, en scrutant leurs dimensions concrètes, en détaillant leurs similitudes, Jacob Rogozinski montre qu'elles proviennent de la même angoisse du "monde renversé" que les dominants soupçonnent les opprimés de préparer. Et que c'est ainsi que s'est opéré le passage de l'exclusion à la persécution

Sorcières --- Persécutions. --- Witch hunting --- Persecution --- Hate --- Chasse aux sorcières --- Persécutions --- Haine --- Histoire. --- History --- Histoire --- --Sorcière --- --Persécutions politiques --- --Persécutions religieuses --- --Sorcellerie --- --Terreur, --- Sorcières --- Persécutions. --- Chasse aux sorcières --- Persécutions --- History. --- Sorcière --- Persécutions politiques --- Persécutions religieuses --- Sorcellerie --- Terreur, 1793-1794

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The 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

History of North America --- History of Europe --- Esoteric sciences --- Christian dogmatics --- anno 1500-1799 --- Witch hunting --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- Witchcraft --- Chasse aux sorcières --- Procès (Sorcellerie) --- Sorcellerie --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Expositions --- Procès --- Ouvrages de référence --- 248.222 --- 291.33 --- -Trials (Witchcraft) --- -Witchcraft --- -Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Burning witches --- Hunting witches --- Witch burning --- Witches --- Witchburning --- Witchhunting --- Persecution --- Vrijwillige relaties met de duivel. Satanisme. Hekserij. Toverij --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Persecutions --- Violence against --- -Vrijwillige relaties met de duivel. Satanisme. Hekserij. Toverij --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- 248.222 Vrijwillige relaties met de duivel. Satanisme. Hekserij. Toverij --- -291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Chasse aux sorcières --- Procès (Sorcellerie) --- Ouvrages de référence. --- witch beliefs --- magic --- the Late Medieval West --- magical practices --- demonologies --- Sabbath --- witches' assemblies --- scepticism --- witchcraft in early modern literature --- Early Modern Europe --- witchcraft prosecutions --- trials for diabolical witchcraft --- the German witch trials --- the Rhine-Moselle region --- witchcraft trials in France --- witchcraft and wealth --- the Netherlands --- witchcraft prosecutions in Italy --- witchcraft in Iberia --- witchcraft trials in England --- witchcraft in Scotland --- witchcraft in Poland --- witch-hunting in early modern Hungary --- witchcraft trials in Russia --- witchcraft criminality --- witchcraft research in the Nordic countries --- witchcraft in British America --- magical traditions --- witchcraft and gender --- witchcraft and the law --- sixteenth century religious reform --- neuropsychology --- politics --- state-building --- science and witchcraft --- demonic possession --- exorcism --- medicine and witchcraft