Emotions in the History of Witchcraft

Bringing together leading historians, anthropologists, and religionists, this volume examines the unbridled passions of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present. Witchcraft is an intensely emotional crime, rooted in the belief that envy and spite can cause illness or even death. Witch-trials i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Kounine, Laura (Editor ), Ostling, Michael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Temas:
Civilization-History.
Emotions.
World history.
Psychology.
Social sciences-History.
Social history.
Cultural History.
Emotion.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Psychology.
Social History.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. 'Unbridled Passion': Witchcraft in the History of Emotion by Michael Ostling and Laura Kounine
  • Part I: In Representation
  • 2. Fear and Devotion in the Writings of Heinrich Institoris by Tamar Herzig
  • 3. Satanic Fury: Depictions of the Devil's Rage in Nicolas Remy's Daemonolatria by Laura Kounine
  • 4. The Cruelty of Witchcraft: the Drawings of Jacques de Gheyn the Younger by Charles Zika
  • 5. Tyrannical Beasts: Male Witchcraft in Early Modern English Culture by E. J. Kent
  • Part II
  • 6. The Witch in the Courtroom: Torture and the Representations of Emotion by Rita Voltmer
  • 7. 'So they will love me and pine for me': Intimacy and Distance in Early Modern Russian Magic by Valerie Kivelson
  • 8. Emotion and Affect in Lorraine Witchcraft Trials by Robin Briggs
  • 9. Speaking of Love in the Polish Witch-Trials by Michael Ostling
  • 10. Over-Familiar Spirits: The Bonds between English Witches and their Devils byCharlotte-Rose Millar
  • Part III
  • 11. Bullying, the Neurobiology of Emotional Aggression, and the Experience of Witchcraft by Edward Bever
  • 12. Witchcraft and the Dangers of Intimacy: Africa and Europe by Peter Geschiere
  • 13. Psychotic Reactions? Witchcraft, The Devil and Mental Illness by Sarah Ferber
  • Part IV
  • 14. In Memorium Maleficarum: Feminist and Pagan Mobilizations of the Burning Times by Laurel Zwissler
  • 15. Afterword: Passions in Perspective by Malcolm Gaskill.

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