Brian P. Levack: Introduction
Part I: Witch Beliefs
1: Richard Kieckhefer: Magic and its Hazards in the Late Medieval
West
2: Hans Peter Broedel: Fifteenth-Century Witch Beliefs
3: Edward Bever: Popular Witch Beliefs and Magical Practices
4: Gerhild Scholz Williams: Demonologies
5: Willem de Blécourt: Sabbath Stories: Towards a New History of
Witches' Assemblies
6: Walter Stephens: The Sceptical Tradition
7: Diane Purkiss: Witchcraft in Early Modern Literature
8: Charles Zika: Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Part II: Witchcraft Prosecutions
9: Richard Kieckhefer: The First Wave of Trials for Diabolical
Witchcraft
10: Thomas Robisheaux: The German Witch Trials
11: Robin Briggs: Witchcraft and the Local Communities: The
Rhine-Moselle Region
12: William Monter: Witchcraft Trials in France
13: Hans de Waardt: Witchcraft and Wealth: The Case of the
Netherlands
14: Tamar Herzig: Witchcraft Prosecutions in Italy
15: William Monter: Witchcraft in Iberia
16: Malcolm Gaskill: Witchcraft Trials in England
17: Julian Goodare: Witchcraft in Scotland
18: Michael Ostling: Witchcraft in Poland: Milk and Malefice
19: Ildikó Sz. Kristóf: Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Hungary
20: Valerie Kivelson: Witchcraft Trials in Russia: History and
Historiography
21: Rune Blix Hagen: Witchcraft Criminality and Witchcraft Research
in the Nordic Countries
22: Richard Godbeer: Witchcraft in British America
23: Iris Gareis: Merging Magical Traditions: Sorcery and Witchcraft
in Spanish and Portuguese America
24: Brian P. Levack: The Decline and End of Witchcraft
Prosecutions
Part III: Themes of Witchcraft Research
25: Alison Rowlands: Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern
Europe
26: Brian P. Levack: Witchcraft and the Law
27: Gary K. Waite: Sixteenth-Century Religious Reform and the
Witch-Hunts
28: Oscar Di Simplicio: On the Neuropsychological Origins of
Witchcraft Cognition: the Geographic and Economic Variable
29: Johannes Dillinger: Politics, Sate Building, and
Witch-Hunting
30: Peter Elmer: Science and Witchcraft
31: Peter Elmer: Medicine and Witchcraft
32: Sarah Ferber: Demonic Possession, Exorcism, and Witchcraft
Brian P. Levack has published widely on English and Scottish legal history and the history of witchcraft prosecutions. His books on witchcraft include The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd ed., 2006) and Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (2008). He is co-author of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999) and the editor of The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004).
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft is a fundamental contribution to
the field of witchcraft studies ... it most certainly deserves its
place in libraries which collect material pertaining to this lively
scholarly field.
*Adam Mezes, European Review of History*
a worthwhile contribution to the literature which all concerned
with early modern witchcraft will consult with profit.
*Michael Hunter, History Today*
the individual contributions are on the whole of a truly excellent
standard. The sum of its parts more than suffices to recommend this
volume.
*Jan Machielsen, English Historical Review*
Editor Levack's balanced volume is a welcome addition to the study
of the history of witchcraft ... Highly recommended.
*A.E. Leykam, CHOICE*
The essays in this collection succeed well in representing the
field in its rich complexity, regional variation and historical
contours. The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft offers a broad
historiographical entrée into witchcraft studies ... as well as an
up-to-date glimpse into the debates and claims of the field for
scholars seeking a reliable and suitably deep overview ... this
volume ranks among the best.
*Laura Stokes, History*
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