Godly Zeal and Furious Rage (RLE Witchcraft) : The Witch in Early Modern Europe.
Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular be...
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Other Authors / Creators: | Quaife, Geoffrey Robert. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Florence : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. |
Series: | Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft Ser.
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Summary: | Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs. This work offers a conspectus of historical work on witchcraft in Europe, and shows how many trends converged to form the figure of the witch, and varied from one part of Europe to another. Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs. This work offers a conspectus of historical work on witchcraft in Europe, and shows how many trends converged to form the figure of the witch, and varied from one part of Europe to another. |
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Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780203819029 |
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