Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria : popular magic, religious zealotry and reason of state in early modern Europe

書誌事項

Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria : popular magic, religious zealotry and reason of state in early modern Europe

Wolfgang Behringer ; translated by J.C. Grayson and David Lederer

(Past and present publications)

Cambridge University Press, 2002

  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Hexenverfolgung in Bayern

統一タイトル

Lederer, David

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注記

Originally published: 1997

Includes bibliographical references (p. [416]-456) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This is a major study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. Based on an intensive search through central and local legal records for south-eastern Germany, an area extending well beyond but including present-day Bavaria, the author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800. He shows conclusively that witch-hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon, and that three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630, years of particular dearth and famine. The book investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and how the mechanisms of persecution served as a rallying cry for partisan factionalism at court. The author also explores the mentalities behind witch-hunting, emphasizing the complex religious debates between believers and sceptics, and Catholics and Protestants.

目次

  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Moving toward a social history of witchcraft
  • 3. The wave of persecutions around 1590
  • 4. The struggle for restraint, 1600-30
  • 5. Perpetuation through domestication, 1630-1775
  • 6. The final Catholic debate
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 8. Sources and literature.

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