Demonology, Religion, and Witchcraft: New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology

ISBN-13: 9780815336693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 486 str.

Brian Levack; Brian P. Levack

Opis

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Introduction, Witchcraft and Catholic Theology, The Holy and the Unholy: Sainthood, Witchcraft, and Magic in Late Medieval Europe, The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic, The Devil' s Hoodwink: Seeingand Believingin the World of Sixteenth Century Witchcraft, Bernardino of Siena, Popular Preacher and Witch-Hunter: A 1426 Witch Trial in Rome, Institors of Innsbruck: Heinrich Institoris, the SummisDesiderantes, and the Brixen Witch Trial of 1485, Protestant Demonology: Sin, Superstition, and Society {c.1520-c.1630), Martin Luther on Witchcraft: a True Reformer?, The Devil as Doctor: Witchcraft, Wodrow, and the Wider World, The Devil's Encounter with America, Witches, Sinners, and the Underside of Covenant Theology, Visions of evil: Popular Culture, Puritanism and the Massachusetts Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, Magic and the Theology of the Body: Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg, A Woman and the Devil: Possessionand Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France, The Devils of Queretaro: Scepticism and Credulity in Late Seventeenth Century Mexico, Balthasar Bekker and the Decline of the Witch-Craze: The Old Demonology and the New Philosophy, 'Man is a Devil to Himself': David Joris and the Rise of a Sceptical Tradition towards the Devil in the Early Modern Netherlands, Witchcraft and Tolerance: The Dutch case, Saints or Sorcerers: Quakerism, Demonology, and the Decline of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England, Acknowledgments

O autorze

Brian P. Levack is John Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A former Guggenheim Fellow, his other writings on witchcraft include Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (1992), The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1995), and Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999). Dr. Levack is also a specialist in the history of early modern England and Scotland, and has written several books on the subject.