Male witches in early modern Europe

The Resource Male witches in early modern Europe

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Male witches in early modern Europe

Statement of responsibility

Lara Apps and Andrew Gow

Language

eng

Summary

Gender at stake critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

133.4/081094

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

BF1584.E85

LC item number

A66 2003eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

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