Languages of Witchcraft
Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture
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Beschreibung
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the 'languages' of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.
Contains new research on an increasingly popular topic Contributors include many scholars who are wellrespected in this field, both historians and literature specialists An exciting new approach to the study of witchcraft and early modern culture
Autor*in
Stuart Clark
Themen in »Languages of Witchcraft«
cultural history England Europe Germany history ideology religion seventeenth century