Men b as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed b are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France. INDICE: List of Figures and Tables - Preface - Series Forward - Notes on Contributors - Not the 'Usual Suspects'? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe; A.Rowlands - Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine; R.Briggs - Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire; R.Schulte - Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (16th-17th Centuries); R.Voltmer - Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstätt; J.Durrant - Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly? O.Di Simplicio - Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland; J.Goodare - Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England; M.Gaskill - The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period; W.de Blécourt - Possession and the Sexes; S.Ferber - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-55329-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 22/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés