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Beyond the witch trials witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe /

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book looks at aspects of the continuation of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the last of the secular and ecclesiastical trials during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davies, Owen, 1969- (Editor ), Blécourt, Willem de (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Colección:Manchester Religious Studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Beyond the witch trials / Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt
  • 1. Marking (dis)order: witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchyin late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland / Raisa Maria Toivo
  • 2. Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia: magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua / Augusto Ferraiuolo
  • 3. From illusion to disenchantment: Feijoo versus the 'falsely possessed' in eighteenth-century Spain / Maria Tausiet
  • 4. Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden
  • The aftermath of the witch-hunt in Dalarna / Marie Lennersand
  • The superstitious other / Linda Oja
  • 5. Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland / Peter Maxwell-Stuart
  • 6. The Devil's pact: a male strategy / Soili-Maria Olli
  • 7. Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol / Jonathan Barry
  • 8. 'Evil people': a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients / Willem de Blécourt
  • 9. The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic / Brian Hoggard
  • 10. The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany
  • The supernatural and the development of print culture / Sabine Doering-Manteuffel
  • Grimoires and the transmission of magical knowledge / Stephan Bachter
  • Index.