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



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Autore: Apps Lara Visualizza persona
Titolo: Male witches in early modern Europe / / Lara Apps and Andrew Gow Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester University Press, 2003
Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 133.4081094
Soggetto topico: Witchcraft - Europe - History
Warlocks - Europe - History
Soggetto non controllato: literature
gender
witchcraft
Demonology
Early modern Europe
Early modern period
Torture
Witch-hunt
Persona (resp. second.): GowAndrew Colin
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Invisible 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.
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Male witches in early modern Europe  Visualizza cluster
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996207552003316
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