Languages of witchcraft : narrative, ideology and meaning in early modern culture /: narrative, ideology and meaning in early modern culture. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stuart Clark.
• Other Names: Clark, Stuart
• Contents: Introduction / Stuart Clark -- pt. 1. History and Story in Witchcraft Trials -- 1. Texts of Authority: Witchcraft Accusations and the Demonstration of Truth in Early Modern England / Peter Rushton -- 2. Understanding Witchcraft? Accusers' Stories in Print in Early Modern England / Marion Gibson -- 3. Witches and Witnesses in Old and New England / Malcolm Gaskill -- 4. Sounds of Silence: Fairies and Incest in Scottish Witchcraft Stories / Diane Purkiss -- pt. 2. Contexts of Witchcraft -- 5. Towards a Politics of Witchcraft in Early Modern England / Peter Elmer -- 6. Reginald Scot/ Abraham Fleming/ The Family of Love / David Wootton -- 7. Hell upon Earth or the Language of the Playhouse / Jonathan Barry -- pt. 3. How Contemporaries Read Witchcraft -- 8. Circling the Devil: Witch-Doctors and Magical Healers in Early Modern Lorraine / Robin Briggs -- 9. Witchcraft as Metaphor: Infanticide and its Translations in Aragon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Maria Tausiet -- 10. Witchcraft and Forensic Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Germany / Thomas Robisheaux -- 11. Reasoning with Unreason: Visions, Witchcraft, and Madness in Early Modern England / Katharine Hodgkin.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 133.4/3; Europe/General; Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses; Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses; Witchcraft; Cults; Witchcraft; Europe; Conference papers and proceedings; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137232519
• Related ISBNs: 113723251X
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