Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it, what was it, and what was its place in their culture? The news essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon—to the "languages" of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: December 15, 2000

ISBN: 0333793498

ISBN 13: 9780333793497

Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it, what was it, and what was its place in their culture? The news essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon—to the "languages" of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: December 15, 2000

ISBN: 0333793498

ISBN 13: 9780333793497

More books from Stuart Clark

Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages

Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?