Witch Politics in Early Modern Europe (1400–1800)
Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be finished? From a sociological point of view, the findings of r...
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Wiesbaden
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1 The framework, an introduction
- Part I The clerical witch model: How the witch crime was invented
- 2 The magical space as mental framework: The clerical playing field
- 3 On the prehistory
- 4 From heretics to witches?
- 5 The witch: construction or reality?
- 6 The witch propaganda
- Part II The legal witch persecution: How the witch-crime was realized
- 7 The 'normal' witchcraft
- 8 The manorial criminal justice system: the legal playing field
- 9 The mass persecutions
- 10 Possession and child-witches
- Part III The witch-politics game: How witchcraft crime was decriminalized
- 11 On the preconditions for analysis
- 12 The end of witchcraft persecution: Tolerance
- 13 Witch Belief: Skepticism and Criticism
- 14 A Conclusion: Witches as Instruments of a Symbolic 'Politics' Game
- Appendix: Recommended Reading
- Literature