Languages of witchcarft (Narrative, ideology and meaning in early modern culture)
Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Mainland Spain
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it, what was it, and what was its place in their culture? The news essays...
Read more- Publisher PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
- ISBN13 9780333793497
- ISBN10 0333793498
- Type BOOK
- Pages 241
- Published 2001
- Bookbinding Rustic
Languages of witchcarft (Narrative, ideology and meaning in early modern culture)
Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it, what was it, and what was its place in their culture? The news essays...
Mainland Spain
Book details
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it, what was it, and what was its place in their culture? The news essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon-to the "languages" of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.
Author Biography: Stuart Clark is Professor of Early Modern History, University of Wales Swansea.