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Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography

Part of the Palgrave Advances Book Series

Editors: Barry, Jonathan; Davies, Owen

DOI: 10.1057/9780230593480

ISBN: 978-1-4039-1176-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 20, 2015

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Introduction

Davies, Owen; Barry, Jonathan

Pages: 1 –10

[Scholars of witchcraft have often been pioneers of new forms of historical study and interdisciplinary developments, as the subject touches upon many fundamental issues regarding the human experience both in the past and the present.1 The witch trials cannot be understood properly without...
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The Contemporary Historical Debate, 1400–1750

Maxwell-Stuart, Peter

Pages: 11 –32

[One of the principal difficulties of combining magic and history lies in thecomplexityof definitions which need to be traversed in order to arrive at any kind of sensible conclusion. What does one mean by ‘magic’? Natural, demonic, mathematical, ritual, folk, witchcraft? What does one mean by...
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Science, Medicine and Witchcraft

Elmer, Peter

Pages: 33 –51

[In attempting to understand the origin of the witch trials and the emergence of a demonological tradition in early modern Europe, writers on witchcraft have consistently sought to ascribe a role for science and medicine in that process. Until fairly recently, two broad assumptions have informed...
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The Nineteenth Century: Medievalism and Witchcraft

Tuczay, Christa

Pages: 52 –68

[This chapter will explore how two apparently very different traditions developed from the rediscovery of witchcraft as an integral part of a medieval world. On the one hand, Romantics, such as Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Scotland and Jules Michelet (1798–1874) in France, rediscovered witch...
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The Reality of Witch Cults Reasserted: Fertility and Satanism

Wood, Juliette

Pages: 69 –89

[In the first half of the twentieth century, two writers challenged the view that witchcraft had never been a ‘real’ cult. Margaret Murray (1863–1963), an Egyptologist and member of the Folklore Society, applied James Frazer’s ideas on the universality of fertility cults at the primitive stage of...
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The Witch-Craze as Holocaust: The Rise of Persecuting Societies

Toivo, Raisa Maria

Pages: 90 –107

[In the aftermath of the Second World War, with the experiences of systematic genocide and totalitarianism, new developments in sociological and political analysis began to emerge, such as the logics of persecution and victimology. The history of ethnic minorities and of ideological crimes also...
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Culture Wars: State, Religion and Popular Culture in Europe, 1400–1800

Nenonen, Marko

Pages: 108 –124

[To understand the witch trials it is, of course, necessary to understand broader developments in European society at the time, and, in this respect, general historical accounts of early modern history proffer a fascinating paradox. The period from the mid fifteenth to the eighteenth century was...
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The Return of the Sabbat: Mental Archaeologies, Conjectural Histories or Political Mythologies?

De Blécourt, Willem

Pages: 125 –145

[By the 1980s witchcraft historians approached the complex mixture that made up a witch trial from both a macro-sociological and a micro-anthropological point of view. The anthropological approach, however, was mainly a social anthropology, more concentrated on the people involved in a trial than...
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Crime and the Law

Levack, Brian P.

Pages: 146 –163

[The essential steps in the process of witch hunting — the accusation, arrest, trial and execution of witches — all involved the operation of the law. Ever since the scholarly study of witchcraft began with the publication of Wilhelm Soldan’s monumental work in 1843, the main sources for the...
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Thinking Witchcraft: Language, Literature and Intellectual History

Gibson, Marion

Pages: 164 –181

[In the late 1970s and 1980s, a range of new and old ideas began to come together to change the way that some historians read and wrote the history of witchcraft. But these ideas did not originate exclusively within history departments. Rather, historians borrowed them from linguists,...

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