Witches and Neighbours

The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft

Robin Briggs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2002 | 2nd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-23325-1 (ISBN)

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This text combines research with the author's investigations to produce an account of the role of witchcraft in the past. It argues that witchcraft - its belief and persecutions - cannot be explained by general causes but was as complex and changing as the society of which it formed a vital part.

Witches and Neighbours is a highly original and unconventional analysis of a fascinating historical phenomenon. Unlike other studies of the subject which focus on the mechanisms of persecution, this book presents a rich picture of witchcraft as an all-pervasive aspect of life in early modern Europe.
This book is not available from Blackwell in the United States and the Philippines.

A fascinating and accessible account of the central role of witchcraft in early modern Europe.

A standard work on the subject of witchcraft now available in a revised edition with an updated bibliography.

Presents an unconventional interpretation of the role and influence of witchcraft

Argues that witchcraft was as complex and changing as the society of which it formed a vital part.

Draws on a range of original sources to vividly illustrate the arguments.

Robin Briggs is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford where he has worked since his election as Prize Fellow in 1964. He was educated at Felsted School and Balliol College, Oxford and he is the author of The Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (1970), Early Modern France (2nd Edition 1998), and Communities of Belief: Cultural and Social Tensions in Early Modern France (1989).

Maps ix

Preface to the Second Edition xiv

Preface to the First Edition xv

Introduction 1

1 Myths of the Perfect Witch 12

2 The Experience of Bewitchment 51

3 Supernatural Power and Magical Remedies 82

4 The Projection of Evil 115

5 Witch-Finders and Witch Cures 146

6 Love and Hatred: Spouses and Kin 191

7 Men against Women: The Gendering of Witchcraft 224

8 The Age of Iron 250

9 The Web of Power 276

10 Internal and External Worlds 321

Conclusion 343

Notes 357

Further Reading 377

Additional Bibliography 386

Index 390

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2002
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	717 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-631-23325-3 / 0631233253
ISBN-13	978-0-631-23325-1 / 9780631233251
Zustand	Neuware