This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800, and shows conclusively that witch hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon: three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630. The book also investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and the complex religious debates between believers and...
This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for t...
In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the history of European witchcraft, while demonstrating that witch-hunts are not simply part of the European past. Although witch-hunts have long since been outlawed in Europe, other societies have struggled with the idea that witchcraft does not exist. As Behringer shows, witch-hunts continue to pose a major problem in Africa and among tribal people in America, Asia and Australia. The belief that certain...
In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological...
Shaman of Oberstdorf tells the fascinating story of a sixteenth-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred years ago the Bavarian alpine town of Oberstdorf, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Vorarlberg, was awash in legends and rumors of prophets and healers, of spirits and specters, of witches and soothsayers. The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin 1549-1587], whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death--and to the death of a number of...
Shaman of Oberstdorf tells the fascinating story of a sixteenth-century mountain village caught in a panic of its own making. Four hundred y...
This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800, and shows conclusively that witch hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon: three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630. The book also investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and the complex religious debates between believers and...
This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for t...
Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have climate changes had on human prosperity and the spirit of invention?
In this major new book Wolfgang Behringer introduces us to the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate. He focuses above all on the cultural reactions to climate change through the ages, showing how even minor changes in the climate sometimes...
Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago...
Pressestimmen zur 1. und 2. Auflage: "Behringers Buch basiert auf breiter Quellengrundlage, besticht durch abwagende Interpretation, als deren Folie die internationale Diskussion erscheint. Ihm ist eine Darstellung gelungen, die zum Besten zahlt, was je uber das Thema geschrieben wurde - ein Standardwerk von hohem Rang, durch das Bayern zu den paradigmatischen Regionen auf der imaginaren Landkarte der So-zialgeschichte werden durfte." Bernd Roeck, Vierteljahrschriften fur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Heft 75/1 (1988) "Solidly documented, cautiously argued, and lucidly written, this book...
Pressestimmen zur 1. und 2. Auflage: "Behringers Buch basiert auf breiter Quellengrundlage, besticht durch abwagende Interpretation, als deren Folie d...
Die heutigen Klimabefunde und -prognosen sind zahlreich, Hiobsbotschaften eingeschlossen, aber was wissen wir über Klimaschwankungen vor 500 oder 50.000 Jahren? Fundiert und anschaulich schildert Wolfgang Behringer, mit welchen Schwierigkeiten, aber auch mit welchen angenehmen Umweltbedingungen unsere Vorfahren konfrontiert waren und wie sie damit umgingen. Das führt nicht zuletzt zum tieferen Verständnis der heutigen Herausforderungen durch die globale Erwärmung.
Die heutigen Klimabefunde und -prognosen sind zahlreich, Hiobsbotschaften eingeschlossen, aber was wissen wir über Klimaschwankungen vor 500 oder 50....
Seit dem Beitritt zur Bundesrepublik am 1.1.1957 ist das Saarland das jüngste der "alten" Bundesländer. Das Land an der mittleren Saar gehört seit der Eisenzeit zu den dicht besiedelten Gebieten Europas: hier wurden Eisen, Kohle und Edelsteine abgebaut und verarbeitet, Holzkohle, Glas und Keramik hergestellt. Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert war es ein Zentrum der Schwerindustrie. Aufgrund seiner Grenzlage und der hervorragenden gewerblichen Entwicklung wurde es immer wieder Ziel französischer Annexionspolitik und Aufmarschgebiet für deutsche Angriffe auf das Nachbarland.
Seit dem Beitritt zur Bundesrepublik am 1.1.1957 ist das Saarland das jüngste der "alten" Bundesländer. Das Land an der mittleren Saar gehört seit ...
