Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-29438-7 (ISBN)
Lizanne Henderson has been a lecturer and cultural historian at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, UK since 2004. She is Editor of Review of Scottish Culture and has published on the Scottish witch-hunts, folk belief, ballads, critical animal studies, Scottish diaspora, polar explorers, and the transatlantic slave trade. Her books include Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture (2009) and, with Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief: A History (2001), and A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600 (2011).
Introduction: Following the Witch
1. Fixing the Limits of Belief
2. The Idea of Witchcraft
3. Demons, Devilry and Domestic Magic: Hunting Witches in Scotland
4. Darkness Visible
5. Bemused, Bothered and Bewildered: Witchcraft Debated
6. 'Worshipping at the Altar of Ignorance': Some Late Scottish Witchcraft Cases Considered
7. The Survival of Witch Belief in South West Scotland: A Case Study
8. The Persistence of Witch Belief
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.03.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic |
Zusatzinfo | XV, 382 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | Cultural History • Folk Belief • Scottish Enlightenment • Scottish History • Witchcraft |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-29438-3 / 0230294383 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-29438-7 / 9780230294387 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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