Witchcraft and masculinities in early modern Europe
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Witchcraft and masculinities in early modern Europe
(Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Men - as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed - are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables Preface Series Forward Notes on Contributors Not the 'Usual Suspects'? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
- A.Rowlands Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine
- R.Briggs Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire
- R.Schulte Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (16th-17th Centuries)
- R.Voltmer Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstatt
- J.Durrant Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly? O.Di Simplicio Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland
- J.Goodare Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England
- M.Gaskill The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period
- W.de Blecourt Possession and the Sexes
- S.Ferber Index
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