The Witchcraft Reader
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| Author | : Darren Oldridge |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 709 |
| Release | : 2019-09-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351345230 |
The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination. The witch trials of the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have inspired a huge and expanding scholarly literature, as well as an outpouring of popular representations. This fully revised and enlarged third edition brings together many of the best and most important works in the field. It explores the origins of witchcraft prosecutions in learned and popular culture, fears of an imaginary witch cult, the role of religious division and ideas about the Devil, the gendering of suspects, the making of confessions and the decline of witch beliefs. An expanded final section explores the various "revivals" and images of witchcraft that continue to flourish in contemporary Western culture. Equipped with an extensive introduction that foregrounds significant debates and themes in the study of witchcraft, providing the extracts with a critical context, The Witchcraft Reader is essential reading for anyone with an interest in this fascinating subject.
| Author | : Darren Oldridge |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780415214926 |
The excellent reader offers a selection of the best historical writing on witchcraft, exploring how belief in witchcraft began, and the social and context in which this belief flourished.
| Author | : Peter Haining |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Occult fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Short stories about witches, past, present, and future, on this planet and on others.
| Author | : Brydie Kosmina |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2023-03-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3031252926 |
The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory, politics, activism, and popular culture. The witch demonstrates the inheritance of paradoxical pasts, traversing numerous ideological memoryscapes. This book is an examination of the ways that the witch has been deployed by feminist activists and writers in their political efforts in the twentieth century, and how this has indelibly affected cultural memories of the witch and the witch trials, and how this plays out in popular culture representations of the symbol through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, this book considers the relationship between popular culture and media, activist politics, and cultural memory. Using hauntological theories of memory and temporality, and literary, screen, and cultural studies methodologies, this book considers how popular culture remembers, misremembers, and forgets usable pasts, and the uses (and misuses) of these memories for feminist politics. Given the ubiquity of the witch in popular culture, politics and activism since 2016, this book is a timely examination of the range of meanings inherent to the figure, and is an important study of how cultural symbols like the witch inherit paradoxical memories, histories, and politics. The book will be valuable for scholars across disciplines, including witchcraft studies, feminist philosophy and history, memory studies, and popular culture studies.
| Author | : Marion Gibson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2005-08-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134624859 |
In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book sheds new light on early modern people's responses to witches and on the sometimes bizarre flexibility of the human imagination.
| Author | : Robert Thurston |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2013-11-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317865006 |
Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a ‘persecuting society’ in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved, with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torture.
| Author | : Kristen Kemp |
| Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
| Total Pages | : 7 |
| Release | : 2014-10-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 148079502X |
Students analyze The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with questions as well as suggested answers.
| Author | : Kristen Kemp |
| Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
| Total Pages | : 5 |
| Release | : 2014-10-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1480795054 |
These assessment questions for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.
| Author | : Marion Gibson |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2006-10-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0826483003 |
A collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, this work provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript. It presents the voices of witches, accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic.
| Author | : Govind Kelkar |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2020-10-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108883435 |
Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. This book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. It brings in field data from India and South-East Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.
