Damned Art (Rle Witchcraft) - Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft

This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts - published in England, France, Germany, Italy and America - setting them within their intellectual context and analysing both their style and argument.

List of contents

1. Evident Authority and Authoritative Evidence: The Malleus Maleficarum  2. Witchcraft and Magic In Renaissance Italy: Gianfranceco Pico and his Strix  3. Johann Weyer's De Praestigiis Daemonum: Unsystematic Psychopathology  4. Jean Bodin's De la Démonomanie des Sorciers: The Logic of Persecution  5. Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft: Scepticism and Sadduceeism  6. A Tudor Anthropologist: George Gifford's Discourse and Dialogue  7. King James's Daemonlogie: Witchcraft and Kingship  8. Pierre De Lancre's Tableau de l'Inconstance des Mauvais Anges et Demons: The Sabbat Sensationalised  9. Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World: Some Metamorphoses of Salem Witchcraft  10. Two Late Scottish Witchcraft Tracts: Witch-Craft Proven and The Tryal of Witchcraft.  Epilogue: The Desiderata of Disbelief

About the author

Sydney Anglo

Product details

• Authors: Sydney Anglo
• Assisted by: Sydney Anglo (Editor), Anglo Sydney (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2016
• EAN: 9781138997783
• ISBN: 978-1-138-99778-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, Witchcraft, REFERENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Religion: general, Social and cultural history, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems