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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4: The Period of the Witch Trials »

Authors: Bengt Ankarloo (Editor), Stuart Clark
ISBN-13: 9780812217872, ISBN-10: 081221787X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Bengt Ankarloo is Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Stuart Clark is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.

A compact survey of the European witch craze of the early modern period—a craze that later spilled over to America.

	Introduction
Pt. 1	Witch Trials in Continental Europe 1560-1660	1
	Montgaillard, 1643	3
	Features of Continental Witch Trials	6
	Witchcraft and the Reformations	10
	Three-quarters German? European Witch Trials 1560-1660	12
	A German Sonderweg?	16
	1563: Weyer and Wiesensteig	18
	Germany's 'Superhunts' (1586-1639)	22
	A Bavarian Sonderweg?	29
	Confessionalism and Appellate Justice in the Empire	31
	The 'Lotharingian Corridor' and Francophone Witch-hunts	34
	Witch-hunting in the Kingdom of France	40
	Witchcraft and the Mediterranean Inquisitions	44
	Witch-hunting after 1650: New and Old Patterns	49
Pt. 2	Witch Trials in Northern Europe 1450-1700	53
	The Rise of Government and the Judicial Revolution: Accusatorial versus Inquisitorial Regimes	63
	Consolidation of Patriarchal Social Relations	70
	Development of Theology and Demonology	72
	Social Tensions on the Local Level	73
	The Sixteenth Century: From Sorcery to Witchcraft	75
	Witchcraft by Regions	76
Pt. 3	Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Culture	97
Ch. 1	Popular Magic	99
	Magic at Work	99
	The Meaning of Magic	105
	Maleficium and Magic	112
	Religious Reformation and Popular Magic	116
Ch. 2	Demonology	122
	The Literature of Witchcraft	122
	Witchcraft and Intellectual History	132
	The Politics of Witchcraft Belief	137
	Languages of Witchcraft	143
Ch. 3	Intellectual Magic	147
	'The Greatest Profoundnesse of Natural Philosophie'	147
	Intellectual Magic and the Scientific Revolution	154
	Natural Magic and Demonic Magic	160
	Magic and Politics	167
	Bibliography	171
	Index	187