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



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Autore: Apps Lara Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gender at Stake [[electronic resource] ] : Male Witches in Early Modern Europe Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
Disciplina: 133.4081094
133.43081094
Soggetto topico: Warlocks
Witchcraft
Witchcraft - Europe - History
Witchcraft - History - Europe
Warlocks - History - Europe
Parapsychology & Occult Sciences
Social Sciences
Persona (resp. second.): GowAndrew Colin
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Gender at Stake  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-73390-X
9786610733903
1-84779-018-6
1-4175-7475-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996210563503316
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