Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780198208082 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 848 str.

Stuart Clark

Opis

This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.

Recenzje

of all the books on the subject that have recently appeared, this is perhaps the most remarkable, raising our understanding of ideas about witchcraft to a new level of sophistication. It is based on massive research in the learned literature of demonology in the period.../ ... Clark's erudition is combined with intense methodological sophistication.../ ... there is no doubt that IThinking with DemonsI willl force us to reconsider the place of witchcraft in early modern ideas, and thus to think more deeply about the nature of those ideas themselves./ Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, London University, Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol 22, no 1 , May 1998.