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The War on Witchcraft - Jan Machielsen

The War on Witchcraft

Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography

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Buch | Softcover
75 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-94874-6 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
How did nineteenth-century historians construct the popular understanding of witchcraft as representing the irrational past antithetical to the enlightened present? In particular the contributions by two American historians, Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) and George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938).
Historians of the early modern witch-hunt often begin histories of their field with the theories propounded by Margaret Murray and Montague Summers in the 1920s. They overlook the lasting impact of nineteenth-century scholarship, in particular the contributions by two American historians, Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) and George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938). Study of their work and scholarly personae contributes to our understanding of the deeply embedded popular understanding of the witch-hunt as representing an irrational past in opposition to an enlightened present. Yet the men's relationship with each other, and with witchcraft sceptics – the heroes of their studies – also demonstrates how their writings were part of a larger war against 'unreason'. This Element thus lays bare the ways scholarly masculinity helped shape witchcraft historiography, a field of study often seen as dominated by feminist scholarship. Such meditation on past practice may foster reflection on contemporary models of history writing.

1. 'Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead'; 2. Two Historians on a Double Date: White and Burr Meet Flade and Loos; 3. History and a Reformer's Project of Reform; 4. The Reformer's Apprentice; 5. Meditations on Masculinity; 6. Reflections.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Elements in Magic
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 227 mm
Gewicht 110 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Esoterik / Spiritualität
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 1-108-94874-X / 110894874X
ISBN-13 978-1-108-94874-6 / 9781108948746
Zustand Neuware
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