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Male witches in early modern Europe / Lara Apps and Andrew Gow
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press |
| Year | 2003 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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| Notes | Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; Open Access English Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-185) and index digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library Print version record Gender at stake critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Authors | *Apps, Lara. Gow, Andrew Colin. |
| Subjects | FREE:Multi-User LCSH:Witchcraft -- Europe -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Warlocks -- Europe -- History All Subject Search FREE:Humanities FREE:History FREE:Regional and national history FREE:European history BISACSH:BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Occultism All Subject Search BISACSH:HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain All Subject Search FREE:Warlocks FREE:Witchcraft FREE:Hexenverfolgung FREE:Magier FREE:Heksen FREE:Mannen FREE:Europe SWD:Europa LCSH:Electronic book BSH:Electronic books FREE:History FREE:Electronic books |
| Classification | DC22:133.4/081094 |
| ID | ED00003203 |
| ISBN | 1417574755 |