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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2010
      13 July 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511599538
      9780521552240
      9780521638753
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599538
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 388 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 388 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
      Series:
      Past and Present Publications
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
    Series:
    Past and Present Publications
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    This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.

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    "Essential reading on the history of European witchcraft." Richard M. Golden, Religious Studies Review

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