Télécharger le livre :  Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province, 1669-1672
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This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other things, an analysis of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-15
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period
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This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-31
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation
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This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-23
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
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This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-29
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-04
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters
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This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an exploration of some of the more...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-10-31
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Satanism, Magic and Mysticism in Fin-de-siècle France
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An interdisciplinary study of the supernatural and the occult in fin-de-siècle France (1870-1914), the present volume examines the explosion of interest in devil-worship, magic and mysticism both from an historical perspective and through analysis of key literary works...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-07
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789
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Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-12-13
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America
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The first comprehensive history of magical treasure hunting from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, revealing a magical universe of treasure spirits, and wizards who tried to deal with them. Combining history and anthropology, this study sees treasure hunting as an...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-11-22
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Demons of Urban Reform
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A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's criminal procedure on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-03-23
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
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Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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Télécharger le livre :  The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
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Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-06-11
Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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