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The European witch-hunt
- Title
- The European witch-hunt / Julian Goodare.
- Author
- Goodare, Julian
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-8858 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxii, 430 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America. Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, this book provides a comprehensive account of witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Julian Goodare sets out an original interpretation of witch-hunting as an episode of ideologically-driven persecution by the 'godly state' in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Full weight is also given to the context of village social relationships, and there is a detailed analysis of gender issues. Witch-hunting was a legal operation, and the courts' rationale for interrogation under torture is explained. Panicking local elites, rather than central governments, were at the forefront of witch-hunting. Further chapters explore folk beliefs about legendary witches, and intellectuals' beliefs about a secret conspiracy of witches in league with the Devil. Witch-hunting eventually declined when the ideological pressure to combat the Devil's allies slackened. A final chapter sets witch-hunting in the context of other episodes of modern persecution.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-409) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-8858
- ISBN
- 9780415254526 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415254523 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415254533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415254531 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015050307
- OCLC
- 933507522
- Author
- Goodare, Julian, author.
- Title
- The European witch-hunt / Julian Goodare.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-409) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-8858