Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 1 write by Frederick H. Cryer. This book was released on 2001-12-13. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, chronologically the first in the six-volume series, deals with the societies of the ancient Near East.
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 write by Bengt Ankerloo. This book was released on 2002-08-01. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 and Magic in Europe
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft and Magic in Europe write by Bengt Ankarloo. This book was released on 1999. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The six-volume set Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, of which this volume is the fifth, provides a scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present. Contributors combine political, legal, and social historical approaches with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. With the end of witch trials in the 18th century, the writers chart the process of and reasons for the decriminalization of witchcraft, but also challenge the widespread assumption that Europe became "disenchanted." Presented here are surveys of the social role of witchcraft, as well as a full treatment Victorian supernaturalism and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers. Three authors contribute three extensive articles: "The Decline and End of Witchcraft Prosecutions" by Brain P. Levack (U. of Texas); "Witchcraft After the Witch-Trials" by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra (U. of Amsterdam); and "Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment, Romantic and Liberal Thought" by Roy Porter (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3 write by Karen Louise Jolly. This book was released on 2002-03-12. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers the rise of "white magic" & Christian persecution of sorcery.
Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe
Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe write by Geoffrey Scarre. This book was released on 1996-08-15. Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his study of witchcraft and magic in 16th and 17th century Europe, Geoffrey Scarre provides an examination of the theoretical and intellectual rationales which made prosecution for the crime acceptable to the continent's judiciaries.
