Reflecting Senses

Reflecting Senses
Author: Walter Pape
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2011-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110889447

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
Author: Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1999-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812217063

Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
Author: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 353
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0485890054

The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers>

The World of the Salons

The World of the Salons
Author: Antoine Lilti
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199772347

The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.

Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition

Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition
Author: Timothy Walker
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047407342

This groundbreaking monograph explores the fascinating social context of "witchcraft" trials in Portugal during the long eighteenth century, when conventional medical practitioners, motivated by a desire to promote "scientific" medicine, worked within the Holy Office to prosecute superstitious folk healers.