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Witches of the North : Scotland and Finnmark
- Title
- Witches of the North : Scotland and Finnmark / by Liv Helene Willumsen.
- Author
- Willumsen, Liv Helene, 1948-
- Publication
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
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- Description
- xiv, 394 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases. --
- Series Statement
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; volume 170
- Uniform Title
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 170.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures, maps and charts -- Introduction -- Part I. Mainland Scotland -- Mainland Scotland : historical background -- Mainland Scotland : what figures can tell -- Mainland Scotland : close-readings -- Part II. Orkney and Shetland -- The Northern Isles : historical background -- Orkney and Shetland : what figures can tell -- Orkney and Shetland : close-readings -- Part III. Finnmark, northern Norway -- Finnmark : historical background -- Finnmark : what figures can tell -- Finnmark : close-readings -- Part IV. Closing -- Comparisons and conclusions -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index of old names -- Thematic index -- Index of authors.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7467
- ISBN
- 9789004252912 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004252916 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004252924 (e-book)
- 9789004252929 (e-book)
- 9789004252929 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013014249
- OCLC
- 845349444
- Author
- Willumsen, Liv Helene, 1948- author.
- Title
- Witches of the North : Scotland and Finnmark / by Liv Helene Willumsen.
- Publisher
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; volume 170Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 170.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7467