Reading Witchcraft

Marion Gibson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-20645-7 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Reading Witchcraft explores the stories told by and about 'witches' and their 'victims', and questions what can be recovered from their trial records, pamphlets and personal accounts. It is an invaluable study of witchcraft stories.

In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book sheds new light on early modern people's responses to witches and on the sometimes bizarre flexibility of the human imagination.

Marion Gibson is Lecturer at the University of Exeter

Introduction; Part 1 Records; Chapter 1 Ghost-writers—dialogue, interrogation and the production of the records of witchcraft; Chapter 2 Witchcraft trials and a methodology for reading them; Chapter 3 Deconstructing generic stories; Part 2 Pamphlets; Chapter 4 ‘Necessary’ and ‘triviall’ pamphlets; Chapter 5 Prefaces; Chapter 6 An Open Conclusion, or ‘Where do we go from here?’;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.5.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	0-415-20645-6 / 0415206456
ISBN-13	978-0-415-20645-7 / 9780415206457
Zustand	Neuware