The witchcraft reader

Publication date
2008
Topics
Witchcraft -- History
Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge
Collection
inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
Contributor
Internet Archive
Language
English
xiii, 408 p. ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Witch trials in medieval Europe / Richard Kieckhefer -- 2. The demonisation of medieval heretics /
Norman Cohn -- 3. Witchcraft and reform in the late Middle Ages / Michael D. Bailey -- 4. The
Malleus maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft / Hans Peter Broedel -- 5. The experience of
bewitchment / Robin Briggs -- 6. Witches and charmers in Scotland / Joyce Miller -- 7. The medical
effects of witchcraft in early modern Europe / Edward Bever -- 8. Weather, hunger and fear : origins of
the European witch-hunts in climate, society and mentality / Wolfgang Behringer -- 9. Margaret
Murray's witch cult / Jacqueline Simpson -- 10. Heartland of the witchcraze / H.C. Erik Midelfort --
11. From dream cult to witchs' sabbath / Gustav Henningsen -- 12. The alternative world of the
witches' sabbat / Éva Pócs -- 13. Inversion, misrule and the meaning of witchcraft / Stuart Clark -- 14.
Protestant witchcraft, Catholic witchcraft / Stuart Clark -- 15. A Lutheran response to witchcraft and
magic / Alison Rowlands -- 16. Anabaptists and the devil / Gary K. Waite -- 17. The crime of
witchcraft in Europe / Christina Larner -- 18. Pierre de Lancre and the Basque witch-hunt / Gerhild
Scholz Williams -- 19. State-building and witch-hunting in early modern Europe / Brian P. Levack --
20. Witchcraft, confessionalism and authority / William Monter -- 21. The devil and the German
people / H.C. Erik Midelfort -- 22. The social meanings of demonic possession / Kathleen Sands -- 23.
Ecstasy, possession, witchcraft / Sarah Ferber -- 24. Johann Weyer and the devil / Elisa Slattery -- 25.
Was witch-hunting woman-hunting? / Christina Larner -- 26. The myth of the persecuted female healer
/ Jane P. Davidson -- 27. Damned women in Puritan New England / Elizabeth Reis -- 28. Women,
witches and witness / Clive Holmes -- 29. Masculinity and male witches in old and new England / E.J.
Kent -- 30. Witchcraft confessions and demonology / Virginia Krause -- 31. Witches, wives and
mothers / Louise Jackson -- 32. Oedipus and the devil / Lyndal Roper -- 33. The decline of witchcraft
prosecutions / Brian P. Levack -- 34. The decline of the witchcraft pamphlet / Marion Gibson -- 35.
Urbanisation and the decline of witchcraft : an examination of London / Owen Davies -- 36.
Witchcraft after the witch trials / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- 37. Modern witches and their past / Diane
Purkiss -- 38. Witchcraft and satanic abuse / Jean La Fontaine