LEADER 04591 am 22005893u 450 001 996207154003316 005 20221206165302.0 010 $a1-5261-3726-7 010 $a1-280-73458-2 010 $a9786610734580 010 $a1-84779-100-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244810 035 $a(EBL)3016907 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277305 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237861 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277305 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10234791 035 $a(PQKB)10326241 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3016907 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10096095 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL73458 035 $a(OCoLC)191929910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3016907 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244810 100 $a20050119d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aBeyond the witch trials$b[electronic resource] $ewitchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe /$fedited by Owen Davies and Willem de Ble?court 210 $aManchester ;$aNew York $cManchester University Press ;$aNew York $cDistributed in the USA by Palgrave$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-6660-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of contributors --Introduction: beyond the witch trials --Marking (dis)order: witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland --Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia: magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua --From illusion to disenchantment: Feijoo versus the ?falsely possessed? in eighteenth-century Spain --Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden --Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland --The Devil?s pact: a male strategy --Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol --?Evil people?: a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients --The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic --The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany --Index. 330 $aBeyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. While witchcraft prosecutions were comparatively rare by the mid-eighteenth century, the intellectual debate did no disappear; it either became more private or refocused on such issues as possession. The contributors come from different academic disciplines, and by borrowing from literary theory, archaeology and folklore they move beyond the usual historical perspectives and sources. They emphasise the importance of studying such themes as the aftermath of witch trials, the continued role of cunning-folk in society, and the nature of the witchcraft discourse in different social contexts. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the decline of the European witch trials and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic during the Enlightenment. More generally it will appeal to those with a lively interest in the cultural history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first of a two-volume set of books looking at the phenomenon of witchcraft, magic and the occult in Europe since the seventeenth century. 606 $aWitchcraft$zEurope$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnlightenment$zEurope 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory 615 0$aEnlightenment 676 $a133.4309409033 701 $aDavies$b Owen$f1969-$0800733 701 $aBle?court$b Willem de$0800734 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996207154003316 996 $aBeyond the witch trials$92145989 997 $aUNISA