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RT Book, Whole SR Electronic DC OPAC T1 Beyond the witch trials : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe / edited by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt A1 Davies, Owen, 1969- A1 Blécourt, Willem de. YR 2004 FD 2004 FD 2004 SP 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (viii, 211 pages) K1 Multi-User K1 Witchcraft -- 18th century. -- Europe -- History K1 Enlightenment -- Europe K1 Humanities K1 Religion and beliefs K1 Alternative belief systems K1 Occult studies K1 Enlightenment K1 Witchcraft K1 Magie K1 Hekserij K1 Hexenglaube K1 Geschichte 1700-1800 K1 Europe K1 Europa K1 Electronic books K1 History K1 1700-1799 PB Manchester University Press ; PB Distributed in the USA by Palgrave PP Manchester ; PP New York SN 184779100X SN 9781847791009 SN 9780719066603 SN 0719066603 SN 1526137267 SN 9781280734588 SN 1280734582 SN 9786610734580 SN 6610734585 SN 9781526137265 LA English (英語) CL DC22:133.4309409033 NO Open Access NO Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. While witchcraft prosecutions were comparatively rare by the mid-eighteenth century, the intellectual debate did no disappear; it either became more private or refocused on such issues as possession. The contributors come from different academic disciplines, and by borrowing from literary theory, archaeology and folklore they move beyond the usual historical perspectives and sources. They emphasise the importance of studying such themes as the aftermath of witch trials, the continued role of cunning-folk in society, and the nature of the witchcraft discourse in different social contexts. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the decline of the European witch trials and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic during the Enlightenment. More generally it will appeal to those with a lively interest in the cultural history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first of a two-volume set of books looking at the phenomenon of witchcraft, magic and the occult in Europe since the seventeenth century NO Includes bibliographical references and index NO English NO digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library NO Description based on print version record; resource not viewed NO Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010 NO 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 NO BIBID=ED00004116; LK [E Book]https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2959739 OL 30