Welcome, the books presented in this section of the bookstore relate to the academic study of the Witchcraft Hunt in Early Modern Europe. They are not presented in any particular order. In most cases the edition listed is the paperback version, as these are cheaper and often easier to acquire. In each case the type of book presented is listed. For those readers in the Southern Hemisphere, ordering through Amazon presents a great way of obtaining books that are not available anywhere else. I have personally ordered books from Amazon and they did make it all the way to Newcastle, NSW (in Australia). I had mine shipped surface mail, it took awhile but they made it eventually! You do have the option of shipping airmail, at an additional cost. All prices listed on the Amazon page are in $US. To order a book, click on the title and follow the instructions. |
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Title: | The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, 2nd Edition |
| Author: | Brian P. Levack | |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Pub Co | |
| Year: | 1995 | |
| Type: | Paperback | |
| ISBN: | 058208069X | |
| Delivery time | Comments: | Discusses the intellectual and legal foundations of the witch- hunts, during which over 100,000 people, mostly women, were prosecuted; the impact of the Reformation; the social context, dynamics, chronology, and geography of witch-hunting; the phenomenon's decline; and the survival and revival of witchcraft. B&w illustrations. |
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Title: | The Literature of Witchcraft (Articles on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology, Vol 4) |
| Author: | Brian P. Levack (Editor) | |
| Publisher: | Garland Pub | |
| Year: | 1992 | |
| Type: | Hardcover | |
| ISBN: | 0815310269 | |
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Title: | Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe : General Studies (Articles on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology, Vol 3) |
| Author: | Brian P. Levack (Editor) | |
| Publisher: | Garland Pub | |
| Year: | 1992 | |
| Type: | Hardcover | |
| ISBN: | 0815310250 | |
| 4-6 weeks | Comments: | Articles include: The Historiography of European Witchcraft: Progress and Prospects By E. William Monter; Crimen Exceptum? The Crime of Witchcraft in Europe By Christina Larner; Witch Hunting and the Domino Theory By H. C. Erik Midelfort and Problems Inherent in Socio-Historical Approaches to the European Witch-Craze By Nachman Ben-Yehuda |
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Title: | Witches & Neighbors : The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft |
| Author: | Robin Briggs | |
| Publisher: | Penguin USA | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| Type: | Paperback | |
| ISBN: | 0140144382 | |
| 24 hours | Comments: | Witches and Neighbors, a remarkable history of European witchcraft, explores the persecutions against its supposed practitioners in the late Renaissance era. Even at the time, writes Robin Briggs, many thought the inquisitions against witchcraft absurd; a chronicler of the time asked "whether the evidence be not frivolous, and whether the proofs brought against [alleged witches] be not incredible." Despite such objections, thousands died, mostly women, mostly poor. Examining contemporary accounts and court records--300 from the duchy of Lorraine alone--Briggs notes that the inquisition heightened divisions between the educated and the uneducated classes, "as their world views polarized to the point where vast areas of what had once been common belief were stigmatized as superstition." |
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Title: | The Witch in History : Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations |
| Author: | Diane Purkiss | |
| Publisher: | Routledge | |
| Year: | 1996 | |
| Type: | Paperback | |
| ISBN: | 0415087627 | |
| 2-3 days | Comments: | Chapters in this book include: A Holocaust of one's own: the myth of the Burning Times; At play in the fields of the past: modern witches; The witch in the hands of historians: a tale of prejudice and fear; The house, the body, the child; No limit: the body of the witch and Self-fashioning by women: choosing to be a witch |
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Title: | The Salem Witchcraft Trials : A Legal History (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) |
| Author: | Peter Charles Hoffer | |
| Publisher: | Kansas UP | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Type: | Paperback | |
| ISBN: | 0700608591 | |
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Title: | The Devil's Disciples : Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| Author: | Peter Charles Hoffer | |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins UP | |
| Year: | 1996 | |
| Type: | Hardcover | |
| ISBN: | 0801852005 | |
| 24 hours | Comments: | Legal and social historian Hoffer provides a different examination of the Salem witchcraft mania: one based on studies of panic rumors, child abuse and family relationships, providing a modern perspective and analysis of Salem events. Thus are internal and family tensions revealed in a different approach to analyzing the Salem events: an approach which includes reflections on the institution of slavery, Salem's role as a bastion of American culture and civility, and issues of increasing consumer interest and changing social morals. |
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Title: | Oedipus and the Devil : Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe |
| Author: | Lyndal Roper | |
| Publisher: | Routledge | |
| Year: | 1994 | |
| Type: | Paperback | |
| ISBN: | 0415105811 | |
| 2-3 days | Comments: | Based on detailed historical case studies, and using a combination of feminist theory and psychological analysis, Roper explores sexual attitudes, masculinity and femininity, magic, concepts of excess, exorcism and witchcraft in early modern Europe. |
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Title: | Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England |
| Author: | James Sharpe | |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Type: | Paperback | |
| ISBN: | 0812216334 | |
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Title: | A Trial of Witches : A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution |
| Author: | Gilbert Geis & Ivan Bunn | |
| Publisher: | Routledge | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Type: | Paperback | |
| ISBN: | 0415171091 | |
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Title: | Thinking With Demons : The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe |
| Author: | Stuart Clark | |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| Type: | Hardcover | |
| ISBN: | 0198200013 | |
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Title: | Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria : Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe (Past and Present Publications) |
| Author: | Wolfgang Behringer: J. C. Grayson (Translator), David Lederer (Translator) | |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ Press | |
| Year: | 1998 | |
| Type: | Hardcover | |
| ISBN: | 0521482585 | |
| 1-2 weeks | Comments: | This is the first english translation of Behringers most important book "Hexenverfolgung in Bayern", published in Germany 1987. In this part of Germany 900 witches were executed (and a many more tried for witchcraft) between 1560 and 1730. Behringer finds that most trials happend in years of particular dearth and famine. One of his conclusions is that every major persecution in this southeastern part of Germany was rooted in agrarian crisis. - His book should be read by anyone who only know about witchtrials in english speaking countries. There are almost 500 fascinating pages in his book. Comment by Rune Hagen. |
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Title: | Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe : Studies in Culture and Belief (Past and Present Publications) |
| Author: | Jonathan Barry (Editor), Marianne Hester (Editor), Gareth Roberts (Editor) | |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ Press | |
| Year: | 1996 | |
| Type: | Hardcover | |
| ISBN: | 0521552249 | |
| 2-3 days | Comments: | Articles include: 'Many reasons why': witchcraft and the problem of multiple explanation By Robin Briggs; State-building and witch hunting in early modern Europe By Brian P. Levack; Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the background to accusations By Malcolm Gaskill and Patriarchal reconstruction and witch hunting By Marianne Hester |
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Updated 2nd June, 1998.
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