Early modern European witchcraft: centres and peripheries/

Other Authors: Ankarloo, Bengt,, Henningsen, Gustav
Format: Book
Language:English
Swedish
Published: Oxford [England]: New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1990, repr.2001
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Witchcraft and Catholic theology / Julio Caro Baroja
  • Protestant demonology : sin, superstition, and society (c.1520-c.1630) / Stuart Clark
  • Inquisitorial law and the witch / John Tedeschi
  • Deciphering the Sabbath / Carlo Ginzburg
  • Satanic myths and cultural reality / Robert Muchembled
  • 'Fantasticall and devilishe persons' : European witch-beliefs in comparative perspective / Robert Rowland
  • 'The ladies from outside' : an archaic pattern of the witches' Sabbath / Gustav Henningsen
  • Hungary : the accusations and the universe of popular magic / Gabor Klaniczay
  • Estonia I : werewolves and poisoners / Maia Madar
  • Estonia II : the crusade against idolatry / Juhan Kahk
  • Sweden : the mass burning (1668-76) / Bengt Ankarloo
  • Finland : the male domination / Antero Heikkinen and Timo Kervinen
  • Denmark : the sociology of accusations / Jens Christian V. Johansen
  • Norway : the criminological context / Hans Eyvind Naess
  • Iceland : sorcerers and paganism / Kirsten Hastrup
  • Portugal : a scrupulous inquisition / Francisco Bethencourt
  • Scandinavian witchcraft in Anglo-American perspective / E. William Monter
  • The comparative approach to European witchcraft / Peter Burke.