LEADER 03033oam 2200481 450 001 996207552003316 005 20230617020313.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000212596 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26868 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000212596 100 $a20121018d2003uuuu uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---|uuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMale witches in early modern Europe /$fLara Apps and Andrew Gow 210 $cManchester University Press$d2003 210 1$aManchester, England :$cManchester University Press,$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 311 08$a0719057094 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aInvisible men: the historian and the male witch --Secondary targets? Male witches on trial --Tortured confessions: agency and selfhood at stake --Literally unthinkable? Demonological descriptions of male witches --Conceptual webs: the gendering of witchcraft --Conclusion and afterword --Appendix. Johannes Junius: Bamberg's famous male witch. 330 3 $aThis book critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology. 606 $aWitchcraft$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWarlocks$zEurope$xHistory 610 $aliterature 610 $agender 610 $awitchcraft 610 $aDemonology 610 $aEarly modern Europe 610 $aEarly modern period 610 $aTorture 610 $aWitch-hunt 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory. 615 0$aWarlocks$xHistory. 676 $a133.4081094 700 $aApps$b Lara$0801724 702 $aGow$b Andrew Colin 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a996207552003316 996 $aMale witches in early modern Europe$92025077 997 $aUNISA