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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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: The Witch in Early Modern Europe
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Fact and Fantasy: An Overview
- 2. Shaping the Image: The Malleus Tradition and its Critics
- 3. Magic and Maleficium
- 4. Heresy and the Diabolic Cult
- 5. Paganism and Popular Religion
- 6. Gender, Sex and Misogyny: I
- 7. Gender, Sex and Misogyny: II
- 8. Ideology and Authority: The Establishment and Witch Hunting
- 9. The Law, Torture and Trial
- 10. Defamation, Deception and Corruption
- 11. Motivation and the Village Community: I, The witch
- 12. Motivation and the Village Community: II. Victims and Accusers
- 13. Dreams, Drugs and Madness: Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index.