Witchcraft in early modern Europe. Studies in culture and belief
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521638753
- ISBN10 0521638755
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 368
- Año de Edición 1998
- Encuadernación Rústica
Materias
Historia Moderna UniversalWitchcraft in early modern Europe. Studies in culture and belief
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
This important collection of essays brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.