Werewolf Histories
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Werewolf Histories

Willem de Blécourt

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eBook - ePub

Werewolf Histories

Willem de Blécourt

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Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.

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Year
2015
ISBN
9781137526342

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. 1  The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology
  4. 2  Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-Men in the Graeco-Roman World
  5. 3  Into the Wild Old Norse Stories of Animal Men
  6. 4  Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape-Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe
  7. Interlude: Wolf-Riding
  8. 5  What about Some Good Wether? Witches and Werewolves in Sixteenth-Century Italy
  9. 6  Species, Phantasia, Raison: Werewolves and Shape-Shifters in Demonological Literature
  10. 7  The Judges Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphosis in the Peripheries of Western Europe
  11. 8  The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany
  12. Interlude: The Shepherd of Wolves
  13. 9  Estonian Werewolf History
  14. 10  The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark
  15. 11  Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions
  16. Index