Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Witchcraft-Persecutions-Bavaria-David-Lederer-Translated-by-Wolfgang-Behringer/9780521482585

Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe (Past and Present Publications)

By David Lederer (Translated by), Wolfgang Behringer, J. C. Grayson (Translated by)

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Hardback, 503 pages

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17 b/w illus. 3 maps 15 tables

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United Kingdom, 11 December 1997

This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. Based on an intensive search through central and local legal records for south-eastern Germany, an area extending well beyond but including present-day Bavaria, the author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800. He shows conclusively that witch-hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon, and that three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630, years of particular dearth and famine. The book investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and how the mechanisms of persecution served as a rallying cry for partisan factionalism at court. The author also explores the mentalities behind witch-hunting, emphasizing the complex religious debates between believers and sceptics, and Catholics and Protestants.

Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Moving toward a social history of witchcraft; 3. The wave of persecutions around 1590; 4. The struggle for restraint, 1600-30; 5. Perpetuation through domestication, 1630-1775; 6. The final Catholic debate; 7. Conclusions; 8. Sources and literature.

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'... ranks alongside earlier ground-breaking works such as those of Thomas, Macfarlane or Midelfort as essential reading for all serious students of the subject'. Bob Scribner, English Historical Review 'Well-nigh definitive as a study of witchcraft prosecutions in south-east Germany between the late Middle Ages and the end of the eighteenth century, Behringer's work also throws dazzling light on the religious, cultural and socio-political background of continental witch-hunting as a whole.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History '... a tour de force of historical research and writing ...'. Journal for the Academic Study of Magic

Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	0521482585
EAN:	9780521482585
Dimensions:	22.0 x 15.0 x 3.0 centimeters (0.95 kg)
Age Range:	15+ years

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