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About this book
This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- contents
- notes on contributors
- 1 introduction
- 2 the contemporary historical debate, 1400ā1750
- 3 science, medicine and witchcraft
- 4 the nineteenth century: medievalism and witchcraft
- 5 the reality of witch cults reasserted: fertility and satanism
- 6 the witch-craze as holocaust: the rise of persecuting societies
- 7 culture wars: state, religion and popular culture in europe, 1400ā1800
- 8 the return of the sabbat: mental archaeologies, conjectural histories or political mythologies?
- 9 crime and the law
- 10 thinking witchcraft: language, literature and intellectual history
- 11 gender, mind and body: feminism and psychoanalysis
- 12 continuity and change: social science perspectives on european witchcraft
- 13 writing witchcraft: the historiansā history, the practitionersā past
- index