Entertaining Satan [[electronic resource] ] : Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
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| Autore: |
Demos John Putnam
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| Titolo: |
Entertaining Satan [[electronic resource] ] : Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 |
| Edizione: | New Edition |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (560 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 133.430974 |
| 974/.02 | |
| Soggetto topico: | New England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century |
| Witchcraft -- New England -- History -- 17th century | |
| Witchcraft - History - 17th century - New England | |
| Magic | |
| Superstitions | |
| Spiritual Therapies | |
| Complementary Therapies | |
| Culture | |
| Anthropology, Cultural | |
| Therapeutics | |
| Anthropology | |
| Social Sciences | |
| Parapsychology & Occult Sciences | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New England Social life and customs 17th century |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Introduction; ONE: BIOGRAPHY; 1. ""A Desolate Condition""; 2. ""Peace with No Man""; 3. Witches: A Collective Portrait; TWO: PSYCHOLOGY; 4. ""A Diabolical Distemper""; 5. ""Let Me Do What I Could""; 6. Accusers, Victims, Bystanders: The Innerlife Dimension; THREE: SOCIOLOGY; 7. ""The Mind of Our Town""; 8. ""Hard Thoughts and Jealousies""; 9. Communities: The Social Matrix of Witchcraft; FOUR: HISTORY; 10. ""From Generation to Generation""; 11. ""Hearts Against Hearts""; 12. Communities: Witchcraft over Time |
| Appendix: List of Known Witchcraft Cases in Seventeenth-Century New EnglandNotes; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface tha |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Entertaining Satan |
| ISBN: | 1-280-53318-8 |
| 1-283-42705-2 | |
| 9786613427052 | |
| 9786610533183 | |
| 0-19-972631-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777753303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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