Witch Beliefs And Witch Trials In The Middle Ages
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Witch Beliefs And Witch Trials In The Middle Ages
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Author : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Witch Beliefs And Witch Trials In The Middle Ages written by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with History categories.
In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn. Most of the original documents are in Latin, with some in medieval German and French, and it has been left largely untranslated, making the material inaccessible, and neglected. This new translation of the key documents will enable students and scholars to look afresh at this crucial period in the development of attitudes towards witchcraft. Through the translated extracts we can see the beliefs and activities which had been formally condemned by ecclesiastical and secular authorities, but which had not yet become subject to widespread eradicating pogroms, start to be allied with heresy and with changing conceptions of demonic activity. The extensive introductory essay gives the reader the historical, theological, intellectual and social background and contexts of the translated documents. The translations themselves will all have introductory notes. This volume will contribute significantly to our understanding of the witchcraft phenomenon in the Middle Ages.
Witch Beliefs And Witch Trials In The Middle Ages
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Author : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Witch Beliefs And Witch Trials In The Middle Ages written by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with History categories.
New translations of primary documents of a crucial period in the development of attitudes to witchcraft.
Witch Beliefs And Witch Trials In The Middle Ages
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Author : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Witch Beliefs And Witch Trials In The Middle Ages written by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with History categories.
In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn. Most of the original documents are in Latin, with some in medieval German and French, and it has been left largely untranslated, making the material inaccessible, and neglected. This new translation of the key documents will enable students and scholars to look afresh at this crucial period in the development of attitudes towards witchcraft. Through the translated extracts we can see the beliefs and activities which had been formally condemned by ecclesiastical and secular authorities, but which had not yet become subject to widespread eradicating pogroms, start to be allied with heresy and with changing conceptions of demonic activity. The extensive introductory essay gives the reader the historical, theological, intellectual and social background and contexts of the translated documents. The translations themselves will all have introductory notes. This volume will contribute significantly to our understanding of the witchcraft phenomenon in the Middle Ages.
Witchcraft In The Middle Ages
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Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Witchcraft In The Middle Ages written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with History categories.
All the known theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century are brilliantly set forth in this engaging and comprehensive history. Building on a foundation of newly discovered primary sources and recent secondary interpretations, Jeffrey Burton Russell first establishes the facts and then explains the phenomenon of witchcraft in terms of its social and religious environment, particularly in relation to medieval heresies. Russell treats European witchcraft as a product of Christianity, grounded in heresy more than in the magic and sorcery that have existed in other societies. Skillfully blending narration with analysis, he shows how social and religious changes nourished the spread of witchcraft until large portions of medieval Europe were in its grip, "from the most illiterate peasant to the most skilled philosopher or scientist." A significant chapter in the history of ideas and their repression is illuminated by this book. Our enduring fascination with the occult gives the author's affirmation that witchcraft arises at times and in areas afflicted with social tensions a special quality of immediacy.
The Witch Hunt In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Brian P. Levack
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1987
The Witch Hunt In Early Modern Europe written by Brian P. Levack and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
This 2nd edition takes account of the large volume of literature on the history of witchcraft that has appeared during the past decade. Includes new material on various aspects of witchcraft from the Middle Ages through to the 17th century.
The Witch
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Author : Ronald Hutton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
The Witch written by Ronald Hutton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Social Science categories.
This “magisterial account” explores the fear of witchcraft across the globe from the ancient world to the notorious witch trials of early modern Europe (The Guardian, UK). The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In The Witch, historian Ronald Hutton sets the European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft. Hutton, a renowned expert on ancient, medieval, and modern paganism and witchcraft beliefs, combines Anglo-American and continental scholarly approaches to examine attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of suspected witches across the world, including in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Australia, and the Americas, and from ancient pagan times to current interpretations. His fresh anthropological and ethnographical approach focuses on cultural inheritance and change while considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, and how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated. “[A] panoptic, penetrating book.”—Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of Books
Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 4
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Author : Bengt Ankerloo
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2002-08-01
Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 4 written by Bengt Ankerloo and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-01 with History categories.
The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.
Witchcraft In Europe 400 1700
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Author : Alan Charles Kors
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2001
Witchcraft In Europe 400 1700 written by Alan Charles Kors and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
A thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.
Witchcraft In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Jonathan Barry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-03-12
Witchcraft In Early Modern Europe written by Jonathan Barry and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-12 with History categories.
An up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft.
Can Witchcraft Be Seen Merely As A Manifestation Of A Society That Feared Marginal Women
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Author : Marion Luger
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-09-15
Can Witchcraft Be Seen Merely As A Manifestation Of A Society That Feared Marginal Women written by Marion Luger and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-15 with History categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 1,0, University of Sussex, language: English, abstract: Beginning in the 14th century, witchcraft-persecution in Europe reached its peak in the 16th and 17th centuries and gradually ended in the 18th century. Apart from this broad local and temporal framework, in the Historic sciences several elements of uncertainty still exist. For instance, the number of accused people varies from over 100,000 to a million, and their geographical and chronological distribution was extremely uneven. Moreover, the phenomenon of witchcraft can hardly ever be linked with a specific group of society, as “it involved both the educated classes and the common people”. In this essay, however, we will firstly consider the appreciation of witchcraft by the elite as well as by the populace (section II). Thereupon, section III describes the preconditions for and the functions of witchcraft-beliefs. Then, section IV shows the interaction of traditional popular sentiments and contemporary authoritarian views and its results. Finally, section V. examines the causes for the transformation from a “private” handling of witchcraft to formal accusations, the affected people and the expansion of their number.