Introduction: Connecting demonology and with hunting in early modern Europe / Julian Goodare. Demonology and the relevance of the witches' confessions / Rita Voltmer -- Metamorphoses of the anti witchcraft treatise Errores Gazariorum (15th century) / Georg Modestin -- " I confess that I have been ignorant" : how the Malleus Maleficarum changed the universe of cleric at the end of the fifteenth century / Walter Rummel -- "In the body" : the canon Episcopi, Andrea Alciati, and Gianfrancesco Pico's humaized demons / Walter Stephens -- French demonology in an English village : the St. Osyth experiment of 1582 / Marion Gibson -- English witchcraft pamphlets and the popular demonic / James Sharpe -- Withches' flight in Scottish demonology / Julian Goodare -- Demonology and scepticism in early modern france : Bodin and Montaigne / Felicity Green -- Judge and demonologist : revisiting the impact of Nicolas Rémy on the Lorraine Witch trials / Rita Voltmer, Maryse Simon -- Demonological texts, judicial procedure, and the spread of ideas about witchcraft in early modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber / Alison Rowlands -- To beat a glass drum : the transmission of popularnotions of demonology in Denmark and Germany / Jens Chr. V. Johansen -- "He promised her so many things :" witches sabbats, and devils in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- Board games, dancing, and lost shoes : ideas about witches' gatherings in the Finnmark witchcraft trials / Liv Helene Willumsen -- What did a witch hunter in Finland know about demonology? / Raisa Maria Toivo -- Guardian of hell : popular demonology, exorcism and mysticism in baroque Spain / María Tausiet -- Interpreting children's Blåkulla stories in Sweden (1675) / Jari Eilola -- Connecting demonology and with hunting in early modern Europe / Julian Goodare.
Summary:
"Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges' concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book's chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic
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