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Male witches in early modern Europe /

Gender at stake critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challeng...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Apps, Lara
Other Authors: Gow, Andrew Colin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in USA by Palgrave, 2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Invisible men: the historian and the male witch
  • Secondary targets? Male witches on trial
  • Tortured confessions: agency and selfhood at stake
  • Literally unthinkable? Demonological descriptions of male witches
  • Conceptual webs: the gendering of witchcraft
  • Conclusion and afterword
  • Appendix. Johannes Junius: Bamberg's famous male witch.