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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783232403321

Autore

Apps Lara

Titolo

Gender at Stake [[electronic resource] ] : Male Witches in Early Modern Europe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-73390-X

9786610733903

1-84779-018-6

1-4175-7475-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

133.4081094

133.43081094

Soggetti

Warlocks

Witchcraft

Witchcraft - Europe - History

Witchcraft - History - Europe

Warlocks - History - Europe

Parapsychology & Occult Sciences

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about



witches in their gendered forms.