The Damned Art (RLE Witchcraft)
Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft
1st Edition
Published on 27. April 2012
272 pages
978-1-136-73206-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts - published in England, France, Germany, Italy and America - setting them within their intellectual context and analysing both their style and argument.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-73206-5 (9781136732065)
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Person
Sydney Anglo
Content
1. Evident Authority and Authoritative Evidence: The Malleus Maleficarum 2. Witchcraft and Magic In Renaissance Italy: Gianfranceco Pico and his Strix 3. Johann Weyer's De Praestigiis Daemonum: Unsystematic Psychopathology 4. Jean Bodin's De la Demonomanie des Sorciers: The Logic of Persecution 5. Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft: Scepticism and Sadduceeism 6. A Tudor Anthropologist: George Gifford's Discourse and Dialogue 7. King James's Daemonlogie: Witchcraft and Kingship 8. Pierre De Lancre's Tableau de l'Inconstance des Mauvais Anges et Demons: The Sabbat Sensationalised 9. Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World: Some Metamorphoses of Salem Witchcraft 10. Two Late Scottish Witchcraft Tracts: Witch-Craft Proven and The Tryal of Witchcraft. Epilogue: The Desiderata of Disbelief
