The Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America

The essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these y...

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Subtitles:Witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America
Contributors: Levack, Brian P. 1943- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press 2014
In:Year: 2014
Reviews:The Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America. Edited by Brian P. Levack. Pp. xiv+630 incl. 4 tables. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £95. 978 0 19 957816 0 (2014) (Hutton, Ronald)
Edition:1. publ. in paperback
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / The Americas / Colony / Witch / Witch trial / History 1500-1850
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Witchcraft History
B Trials (Witchcraft) History
B Trials (Witchcraft) History
B Witchcraft History
B Witch hunting History
B Witch hunting History
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Summary:The essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbors. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshiped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offense. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.--
The essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbors. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshiped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offense. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.--
ISBN:0198723636