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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America

ISBN: 9780199578160 | 0199578168
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/19/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts withthe devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies kn... MORE

Introduction, Brian P. Levack
Part I: Witch Beliefs
1. Magic and its Hazards in the Late Medieval West, Richard Kieckhefer
2. Fifteenth-Century Witch Beliefs, Hans Peter Broedel
3. Popular Witch Beliefs and Magical Practices, Edward Bever
4. Demonologies, Gerhild Scholz Williams
5. Sabbath Stories: Towards a New History of Witches' Assemblies, Willem de Blecourt
6. The Sceptical Tradition, Walter Stephens
7. Witchcraft in Early Modern L... MORE

Brian P. Levack has published widely on English and Scottish legal history and the history of witchcraft prosecutions. His books on witchcraft include The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd ed., 2006) and Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (2008). He is co-author of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999) and the editor of The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004).


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