Witchcraft and masculinities in early modern Europe [Elektronisk resurs] / Edited by Alison Rowlands.

• List of Figures and Tables Preface Series Forward Notes on Contributors Not the 'Usual Suspects'? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe-- A.Rowlands Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine-- R.Briggs Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire-- R.Schulte Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (16th-17th Centuries)-- R.Voltmer Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstatt-- J.Durrant Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly? O.Di Simplicio Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland-- J.Goodare Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England-- M.Gaskill The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period-- W.de Blecourt Possession and the Sexes-- S.Ferber Index.

• Men -- as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed -- are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France. -- Men and masculinities are still incorporated inadequately into the history of early modern witch-trials, despite the fact that 20-25% of all the people accused of witchcraft across early modern Europe were male. This book redresses this imbalance by making men the main focus of analysis. What sort of men risked being accused of witchcraft in early modern Europe, and why did some regions persecute more men as witches than others? Did the numbers of male victims increase during large-scale witch-panics? What ideas about masculinity underpinned the zeal of the men who acted as witch-hunters? To what extent were beliefs about the practice of magic gendered, and how did gender shape the ways in which werewolves were imagined and demonic possession was experienced? In this groundbreaking collection of essays, leading historians of early modern European witchcraft offer answers to these questions through original case-studies from England, Germany, Scotland, Italy and France. 
• 'There are two popular modern conceptions about the witchcraft trials of the early modern period, the idea that they were a sort of gender war launched by patriarchal males against women, and an older idea that they represented the hangover from medieval superstition. This book explicitly challenges the former, and serves to remind us even more clearly how false the latter is.' - The Magonia Review of Books. 

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Men  -- Social conditions -- Europe. (LCSH)

Witchcraft and sex  -- History -- Europe. (LCSH)

Witch hunting  -- History -- Europe. (LCSH)

Trials (Witchcraft)  -- History -- Europe. (LCSH)

History.  (ukslc)

European history  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

Witchcraft  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

Social & cultural history  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

Gender studies: men & boys  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

Magic, spells & alchemy  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought  -- c 1500 onwards to present day. (thema)

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