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Male Witches in Early Modern Europe »

Authors: Lara Apps, Andrew Gow
ISBN-13: 9780719057090, ISBN-10: 0719057094
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Lara Apps is Graduate Student Ombudsperson, and Andrew Gow is Associate Professor of History, both at the University of Alberta.

This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.

	List of figures
	Preface and acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Invisible men: the historian and the male witch	25
2	Secondary targets? Male witches on trail	43
3	Tortured confessions: agency and selfhood at stake	65
4	Literally unthinkable? Demonological descriptions of male witches	95
5	Conceptual webs: the gendering of witchcraft	118
	Conclusion and afterword	151
App	Johannes Junius: Bamberg's famous male witch	159
	Bibliography	167
	Index	187