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Record Nr.

UNISA996552348503316

Autore

Apps Lara

Titolo

Male witches in early modern Europe / / Lara Apps and Andrew Gow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England ; ; New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-5261-3750-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 190 pages)

Disciplina

133.43094

Soggetti

Witchcraft - Europe - History

Warlocks - Europe - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting, challenging the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. Shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. It uses feminist categories of gender analysis to challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies providing a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms than has hitherto been available.