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Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief »

Authors: Jonathan Barry, Gareth Roberts (Editor), Marianne Hester
ISBN-13: 9780521552240, ISBN-10: 0521552249
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

An up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft.

	Preface
1	Introduction: Keith Thomas and the problem of witchcraft	1
2	'Many reasons why': witchcraft and the problem of multiple explanation	49
3	Witchcraft studies in Austria, Germany and Switzerland	64
4	State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe	96
5	The devil's encounter with America	119
6	'Saints or sorcerers': Quakerism, demonology and the decline of witchcraft in seventeenth-century England	145
7	The descendants of Circe: witches and Renaissance fictions	183
8	Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany	207
9	The devil in East Anglia: the Matthew Hopkins trials reconsidered	237
10	Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the background to accusations	257
11	Patriarchal reconstruction and witch hunting	288
12	Witchcraft repealed	309
13	On the continuation of witchcraft	335
	Index	353