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Autore |
Apps Lara |
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Titolo |
Gender at Stake [[electronic resource] ] : Male Witches in Early Modern Europe |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-73390-X |
9786610733903 |
1-84779-018-6 |
1-4175-7475-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Warlocks |
Witchcraft |
Witchcraft - Europe - History |
Witchcraft - History - Europe |
Warlocks - History - Europe |
Parapsychology & Occult Sciences |
Social Sciences |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; FIGURES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 INVISIBLE MEN: THE HISTORIAN AND THE MALE WITCH; 2 SECONDARY TARGETS? MALE WITCHES ON TRIAL; 3 TORTURED CONFESSIONS: AGENCY AND SELFHOOD AT STAKE; 4 LITERALLY UNTHINKABLE? DEMONOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF MALE WITCHES; 5 CONCEPTUAL WEBS: THE GENDERING OF WITCHCRAFT; CONCLUSION AND AFTERWORD; APPENDIX JOHANNES JUNIUS: BAMBERG'S FAMOUS MALE WITCH; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study of male witches addresses incidents of witch-hunting in Britain and Europe, using feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. It advances a |
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