Beyond the witch trials witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe /: witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt.
• Editors: Davies, Owen, 1969-; Blécourt, Willem de
• Other Names: Manchester University Press, publisher.
• Contents: Introduction: Beyond the witch trials / Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt -- 1. Marking (dis)order: witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchyin late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland / Raisa Maria Toivo -- 2. Pro exoneratione sua propria coscientia: magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua / Augusto Ferraiuolo -- 3. From illusion to disenchantment: Feijoo versus the 'falsely possessed' in eighteenth-century Spain / Maria Tausiet -- 4. Responses to witchcraft in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden -- The aftermath of the witch-hunt in Dalarna / Marie Lennersand -- The superstitious other / Linda Oja -- 5. Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland / Peter Maxwell-Stuart -- 6. The Devil's pact: a male strategy / Soili-Maria Olli -- 7. Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol / Jonathan Barry -- 8. 'Evil people': a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients / Willem de Blécourt -- 9. The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic / Brian Hoggard -- 10. The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany -- The supernatural and the development of print culture / Sabine Doering-Manteuffel -- Grimoires and the transmission of magical knowledge / Stephan Bachter -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 133.4309409033; Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment -- Europe; Enlightenment; Witchcraft; Europe; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526137265; 1526137267
• Related ISBNs: 9780719066603; 9780719066610
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print record.
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