Research Catalog

Title

Emotions in the history of witchcraft / edited by Laura Kounine and Michael Ostling.

Publication

• London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kounine, Laura, 1985-
• Ostling, Michael

Description

xvi, 321 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Bringing together leading historians, anthropologists, and religionists, this volume examines the unbridled passions of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present. Witchcraft is an intensely emotional crime, rooted in the belief that envy and spite can cause illness or even death. Witch-trials in turn are emotionally driven by the grief of alleged victims and by the fears of magistrates and demonologists. With examples ranging from Russia to New England, Germany to Cameroon, chapters cover the representation of emotional witches in demonology and art; the gendering of witchcraft as female envy or male rage; witchcraft as a form of bullying and witchcraft accusation as a form of therapy; love magic and demon-lovers; and the affective memorialization of the "Burning Times" among contemporary Pagan feminists. Wide-ranging and methodologically diverse, the book is appropriate for scholars of witchcraft, gender, and emotions; for graduate or undergraduate courses, and for the interested general reader.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in the history of emotions

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in the history of emotions.

Subject

• Emotions
• Witchcraft > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index.

Contents

Introduction: 'unbridled passion' and the history of witchcraft / Michael Ostling and Laura Kounine -- Part I. In representation -- Fear and devotion in the writings of Heinrich Institoris / Tamar Herzig -- The cruelty of witchcraft: the drawings of Jacques de Gheyn the Younger / Charles Zika -- Satanic fury: depictions of the devil's rage in Nicolas Remy's Daemonolatria / Laura Kounine -- Tyrannical beasts: male witchcraft in Early Modern English culture / E.J. Kent -- Part II. On trial -- The witch in the courtroom: torture and the representations of emotion / Rita Voltmer -- 'So they will love me and pine for me': intimacy and distance in Early Modern Russian magic / Valerie A. Kivelson -- Emotion and affect in Lorraine witchcraft trials / Robin Briggs -- Speaking of love in the Polish witch trials / Michael Ostling -- Over-familiar spirits: the bonds between English witches and their devils / Charlotte-Rose Millar -- Part III. In the mind -- Bullying, the neurobiology of emotional aggression, and the experience of witchcraft / Edward Bever -- Witchcraft and the dangers of intimacy: Africa and Europe / Peter Geschiere -- Psychotic reactions? Witchcraft, the devil and mental illness / Sarah Ferber -- Part IV. In history -- In memorium maleficarum: feminist and pagan mobilizations in the burning times / Laurel Zwissler -- Afterword: passions in perspective / Malcom Gaskill.

Call Number

JFD 17-2568

ISBN

• 1137529024
• 9781137529022

LCCN

2016958278

OCLC

981085988

Title

Emotions in the history of witchcraft / edited by Laura Kounine and Michael Ostling.

Publisher

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in the history of emotions

Palgrave studies in the history of emotions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index.

Added Author

Kounine, Laura, 1985- editor.

Ostling, Michael, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Emotions in the history of witchcraft. London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016] 9781137529039 (OCoLC)972477879

Research Call Number

JFD 17-2568