Research Catalog

Title

Witchcraft and masculinities in early modern Europe / edited by Alison Rowlands.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rowlands, Alison.

Description

xiii, 257 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Men and masculinities are still inadequately incorporated into the historiography of early modern witch trials, despite the fact that 20-25% of all accused 'witches' were male. This book redresses this imbalance by making men the focus of the gender analysis and also covers the issue of regional variation in the gendering of witch persecution"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic

Uniform Title

Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.

Subject

• Witchcraft and sex > Europe > History > Congresses
• Men > Europe > Social conditions > Congresses
• Witch hunting > Europe > History > Congresses
• Warlocks > Europe > History > Congresses
• Men > Social conditions
• Warlocks
• Witch hunting
• Witchcraft and sex
• Magier
• Hexerei
• Magie > Sexualität > Geschichte Neuzeit > Kongressbericht
• Sexualität > Magie > Geschichte Neuzeit > Kongressbericht
• Hexe > Geschichte Neuzeit > Kongressbericht
• Europe
• Europa

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Not 'the usual suspects'? Male witches, witchcraft, and masculinities in early modern Europe / Alison Rowlands -- Male witches in the Duchy of Lorraine / Robin Briggs -- Men as accused witches in the Holy Roman Empire / Rolf Schulte -- Witch-finders, witch-hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The prominent role of men in the mass persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Rita Voltmer -- Why some men and not others? The male witches of Eichstätt / Jonathan Durrant -- Giandomenico Fei, the only male witch. A Tuscan or an Italian anomaly? / Oscar Di Simplicio -- Men and the witch-hunt in Scotland / Julian Goodare -- Masculinity and witchcraft in seventeenth-century England / Malcolm Gaskill -- The werewolf, the witch, and the warlock: aspects of gender in the early modern period / Willem de Blécourt -- Possession and the sexes / Sarah Ferber.

Call Number

JFD 15-4875

ISBN

• 9780230553293 (hardback)
• 023055329X (hardback)

LCCN

2009044249

OCLC

460711649

Title

Witchcraft and masculinities in early modern Europe / edited by Alison Rowlands.

Imprint

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic

Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Rowlands, Alison.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-4875