Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781138565425 |
| eText ISBN | 9781351345231 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2020 |
| Edition | 3rd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 490 |
The Witchcraft Reader, 3rd Edition, edited by Darren Oldridge, gathers essential historical scholarship on witchcraft prosecutions and beliefs. Included in the Routledge Readers in History series, this revised and enlarged volume collects key scholarly writings exploring the phenomenon across medieval, early modern, and contemporary contexts.
The reader examines the roots of trials in both learned and popular culture, social anxieties concerning an imagined witch cult, and the roles of religious division and ideas about the Devil. Further selections investigate the gendering of suspects, confessions, and the eventual decline of prosecutions.
An extensive introduction contextualizes the collected extracts by foregrounding major scholarly debates, providing critical framework for studying the history and historiography of witchcraft.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: Medieval origins
Chapter 1: Richard Kieckhefer WITCH TRIALS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE (1976)
Chapter 2: Norman Cohn THE DEMONISATION OF MEDIEVAL HERETICS (1975)
Chapter 3: Michael D. Bailey WITCHCRAFT AND REFORM IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (2003)
Chapter 4: Hans Peter Broedel THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WITCHCRAFT (2003)
Chapter 5: Charles Zika ULRICH MOLITOR AND THE IMAGERY OF WITCHCRAFT (2007)
PART TWO: Witchcraft, magic and fear
Chapter 6: Robin Briggs THE EXPERIENCE OF BEWITCHMENT (2002)
Chapter 7: Euan Cameron SPIRITS IN POPULAR BELIEF (2010)
Chapter 8: Joyce Miller WITCHES AND CHARMERS IN SCOTLAND (2002)
Chapter 9: Edward Bever THE MEDICAL EFFECTS OF WITCHCRAFT IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (2000)
Chapter 10: Wolfgang Behringer WEATHER, HUNGER AND FEAR: ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN WITCH- HUNTS IN CLIMATE, SOCIETY AND MENTALITY (1995)
PART THREE: The idea of a witch cult
Chapter 11: Jacqueline Simpson MARGARET MURRAY’S WITCH CULT (1994)
Chapter 12: H. C. Erik Midelfort HEARTLAND OF THE WITCHCRAZE (1981)
Chapter 13: Gustav Henningsen FROM DREAM CULT TO WITCHES’ SABBATH (1993)
Chapter 14: É va P ó cs THE ALTERNATIVE WORLD OF THE WITCHES’ SABBAT (1993)
Chapter 15: Stuart Clark INVERSION, MISRULE AND THE MEANING OF WITCHCRAFT (1980)
PART FOUR: Witchcraft and the Reformation
Chapter 16: Stuart Clark PROTESTANT WITCHCRAFT, CATHOLIC WITCHCRAFT (1997)
Chapter 17: Alison Rowlands A LUTHERAN RESPONSE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC (1996)
Chapter 18: Gary K. Waite ANABAPTISTS AND THE DEVIL (1999)
PART FIVE: Witchcraft and authority
Chapter 19: Gerhild Scholz Williams PIERRE DE LANCRE AND THE BASQUE WITCH- HUNT (1999)
Chapter 20: Brian P. Levack STATE- BUILDING AND WITCH HUNTING IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (1996)
Chapter 21: William Monter WITCHCRAFT, CONFESSIONALISM AND AUTHORITY (2002)
PART SIX: Witchcraft, possession and the Devil
Chapter 22: H. C. Erik Midelfort THE DEVIL AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE (1989)
Chapter 23: Charlotte- Rose Millar THE DEVIL AND FAMILIAR SPIRITS IN ENGLISH WITCHCRAFT (2017)
Chapter 24: Kathleen Sands THE SOCIAL MEANINGS OF DEMONIC POSSESSION (2004)
Chapter 25: Sarah Ferber ECSTASY, POSSESSION, WITCHCRAFT (2004)
Chapter 26: Elisa Slattery JOHANN WEYER AND THE DEVIL (1994)
PART SEVEN: Witchcraft and gender
Chapter 27: Karen Jones and Michael Zell WOMEN AND WITCHCRAFT BEFORE THE “GREAT WITCH- HUNT” (2005)
Chapter 28: Jane P. Davidson THE MYTH OF THE PERSECUTED FEMALE HEALER (1993)
Chapter 29: Elizabeth Reis DAMNED WOMEN IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND (1997)
Chapter 30: Clive Holmes WOMEN, WITNESSES AND WITCHES (1993)
Chapter 31: E. J. Kent MASCULINITY AND MALE WITCHES IN OLD AND NEW ENGLAND (2005)
PART EIGHT: Reading confessions
Chapter 32: Virginia Krause WITCHCRAFT CONFESSIONS AND DEMONOLOGY (2005)
Chapter 33: Louise Jackson WITCHES, WIVES AND MOTHERS (1995)
Chapter 34: Lyndal Roper OEDIPUS AND THE DEVIL (1994)
PART NINE: The decline of witchcraft 375
Chapter 35: Brian P. Levack THE DECLINE OF WITCHCRAFT PROSECUTIONS (1999)
Chapter 36: Marion Gibson THE DECLINE OF THE WITCHCRAFT PAMPHLET (1999)
Chapter 37: Owen Davies URBANIZATION AND THE DECLINE OF WITCHCRAFT: AN EXAMINATION OF LONDON (1997)
Chapter 38: Marijke Gijswijt- Hofsra WITCHCRAFT AFTER THE WITCH TRIALS (1999)
PART TEN: Witchcraft today
Chapter 39: Diane Purkiss MODERN WITCHES AND THEIR PAST (1996)
Chapter 40: Ethan Doyle White WICCA AS WITCHCRAFT (2016)
Chapter 41: Jean La Fontaine WITCHCRAFT AND SATANIC ABUSE (1998)
Chapter 42: Marion Gibson HARRY POTTER IN AMERICA (2007)
Chapter 43: Julian Goodare MODERN WESTERN IMAGES OF WITCHES (2016)
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