The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations
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The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations
Routledge, 1996
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer
'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Histories of Witchcraft
- Chapter 1 A Holocaust of One's Own
- Chapter 2 At Play in the Fields of the Past
- Chapter 3 The Witch in the Hands of Historians
- Part 2 Early Modern Women's Stories of Witchcraft
- Chapter 4 The House, the Body, the Child
- Chapter 5 No Limit
- Chapter 6 Self-Fashioning by Women
- Part 3 Witches on Stage
- Chapter 7 Elizabethan Stagings
- Chapter 8 The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue
- Chapter 9 Testimony and Truth
- Chapter 10 The Witch on the Margins of 'race'
- Conclusion
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