Thinking With Demons - The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A work for our understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe. The author offers an interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, based on their publications in the field of demonology.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Clark, Stuart (Professor of History Clark, Clark Stuart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2000
• EAN: 9780198208082
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820808-2
• No. of pages: 845
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Demonology & Satanism, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Satanism & demonology, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Magic, alchemy and hermetic thought, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, C 1600 To C 1700, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Satanism and demonology