Beyond the witch trials : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe / / edited by Owen Davies and Willem de Blecourt |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 133.4309409033 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DaviesOwen <1969->
BlecourtWillem de |
Collana | Manchester Religious Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Witchcraft - Europe - History - 18th century
Enlightenment - Europe |
ISBN |
1-5261-3726-7
1-280-73458-2 9786610734580 1-84779-100-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145017403321 |
Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press | ||
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Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe / / edited by Willem de Blecourt and Owen Davies |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 133.4309409034 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BlecourtWillem de
DaviesOwen <1969-> |
Collana | Manchester Religious Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Witchcraft - Europe - History - 19th century
Witchcraft - Europe - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-5261-3797-6
1-280-73457-4 9786610734573 1-84779-099-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: witchcraft continued -- 1. A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action -- 2. Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against 'superstition' in nineteenth-century Germany -- 3. The witch and the detective: mid-Victorian stories and beliefs -- 4. Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland -- 5. Boiling chickens and burning cats: witchcraft in the western Netherlands, 1850-192 -- 6. Witchcraft accusations in France, 1850-1990 -- 7. Magical healing in Spain (1875-1936): medical pluralism and the search for hegemony -- 8. Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy -- 9. Curse, maleficium, divination: witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic --10. Spooks and spooks: black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973-74 -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145016003321 |
Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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