Book Details
Orange Code:93064
Paperback:259 pages
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1. the contemporary historical debate, 1400–17502. science, medicine and witchcraft3. the nineteenth century: medievalism and witchcraft4. the reality of witch cults reasserted: fertility and satanism5. the witch-craze as holocaust: the rise of persecuting societies6. culture wars: state, religion and popular culture in europe, 1400–18007. the return of the sabbat: mental archaeologies, conjectural histories or political mythologies?8. crime and the law9. thinking witchcraft: language, literature and intellectual history10. gender, mind and body: feminism and psychoanalysis11. continuity and change: social science perspectives on european witchcraft12. writing witchcraft: the historians’ history, the practitioners’ past
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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 developments in historical theory in relation to the study of the history of witchcraft, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
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