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[UNTITLED] Oxford Handbooks Online [UNTITLED] The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America Edited by Brian P. Levack Print Publication Date: Mar 2013 Subject: History Online Publication Date: May 2013 (p. iv) Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © The Editorial Material and Arrangement © The Editor 2013 The Chapters © The Various Contributors 2013 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2013 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. 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Page 1 of 2 Contents Go to page: Front Matter [UNTITLED] List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Brian P. Levack Witch Beliefs Magic and its Hazards in the Late Medieval West Richard Kieckhefer FifteenthCentury Witch Beliefs Hans Peter Broedel Popular Witch Beliefs and Magical Practices Edward Bever Demonologies Gerhild Scholz Williams Sabbath Stories: Towards a New History of Witches’ Assemblies Willem de Blécourt The Sceptical Tradition Walter Stephens Witchcraft in Early Modern Literature Diane Purkiss Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe Charles Zika Witchcraft Prosecutions The First Wave of Trials for Diabolical Witchcraft Richard Kieckhefer The German Witch Trials Thomas Robisheaux Witchcraft and the Local Communities: The RhineMoselle Region Robin Briggs Witchcraft Trials in France William Monter Witchcraft and Wealth: The Case of the Netherlands Hans de Waardt Witchcraft Prosecutions in Italy Tamar Herzig Witchcraft in Iberia William Monter Witchcraft Trials in England Malcolm Gaskill Witchcraft in Scotland Julian Goodare Witchcraft in Poland: Milk and Malefice Michael Ostling WitchHunting in Early Modern Hungary Ildikó Sz. Kristóf Witchcraft Trials in Russia: History and Historiography Valerie Kivelson Witchcraft Criminality and Witchcraft Research in the Nordic Countries Rune Blix Hagen Witchcraft in British America Richard Godbeer Merging Magical Traditions: Sorcery and Witchcraft in Spanish and Portuguese America Iris Gareis The Decline and End of Witchcraft Prosecutions Brian P. Levack Themes of Witchcraft Research Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Europe Alison Rowlands Witchcraft and the Law Brian P. Levack SixteenthCentury Religious Reform and the WitchHunts Gary K. Waite On The Neuropsychological Origins of Witchcraft Cognition: The Geographic and Economic Variable Oscar Di Simplicio Politics, StateBuilding, and WitchHunting Johannes Dillinger Science and Witchcraft Peter Elmer Medicine and Witchcraft Peter Elmer Demonic Possession, Exorcism, and Witchcraft Sarah Ferber End Matter Index List of Tables Oxford Handbooks Online List of Tables The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America Edited by Brian P. Levack Print Publication Date: Mar 2013 Subject: History Online Publication Date: May 2013 List of Tables 13.1 Casualties in Witchcraft Trials in the Northern Low Countries 241 18.1 Intensive Witch-Hunts in Poland 324 21.1 Executions of Witches in the Nordic world 376 28.1 Urban Shares of the Population in Europe, 1500–1850 (%) 514 Page 1 of 1 Notes on Contributors Oxford Handbooks Online Notes on Contributors The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America Edited by Brian P. Levack Print Publication Date: Mar 2013 Subject: History Online Publication Date: May 2013 Notes on Contributors Edward Bever is Professor of History at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1983 with a dissertation titled ‘Witchcraft in Early Modern Wuerttemberg’. He has published numerous articles and entries on witchcraft and magic in early modern Europe, and in 2008 published The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life. He is currently co-editing a volume of papers, Magic and the Modern, and his most recent article is ‘Current Trends in the Application of Cognitive Science to Magic’ in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (2012). Willem de Blécourt is an historical anthropologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the Huizinga Institute and the Meertens Institute, both in Amsterdam. He is co-author of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Twentieth Century (1999) and co-editor of a number of books on the history of witchcraft and medical history, the latest being a volume on shapeshifting. His book, Tales of Magic, Tales in Print: On the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm, appeared in 2012. Among his many articles are ‘The Return of the Sabbat’ in Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography (2007) and ‘A Journey to Hell: Reconsidering the Livonian “Werewolf'”’ in Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft (2007). He is co-editor of the book series, Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Page 1 of 10 Notes on Contributors Robin Briggs is Emeritus Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Early Modern France, 1560–1715 (1977), Communities of Belief: Social and Cultural Tensions in Early Modern France (1989), Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (1996), and The Witches of Lorraine (Oxford, 2007). His website of Lorraine Witchcraft Trials, including abstracts of some 400 Lorraine trials, is available at <http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/robinbriggs>. Hans Peter Broedel is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Dakota, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He is the author of The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief (2003), and has published articles on witches, late medieval apparitions, and early modern natural history. His current research investigates credulity and scepticism in early modern attitudes towards fantastic animals. (p. x) Johannes Dillinger studied history, Catholic theology, and educational theory at Tübingen University, Trier University, and the University of East Anglia. Dillinger is currently senior lecturer in early modern history at Oxford Brookes University. His Ph.D. thesis, ‘Böse Leute’, won the Friedrich Spee Award for Outstanding Contributions to the History of Witchcraft in 1999 and was translated into English as “Evil People”: A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier (2009). Dillinger has published several works on witchcraft and magic, including two monographs on treasure hunting, as well as books and articles on constitutional history and political crime. Page 2 of 10 Notes on Contributors Oscar Di Simplicio, former lecturer of modern history at the University of Florence, lives in Siena. He has written extensively on the history of witchcraft, and his publications include Inquisizione stregoneria medicina. Siena e il suo stato, 1580–1721 (2000) and Autunno della stregoneria. Maleficio e magia nell’Italia moderna (2005). He has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft (2006) and to Witchcraft and Masculinity in Early Modern Europe (2009). He is the author of Luxuria. Eros e violenza nel Seicento (2011), in which he has sketched a neuropsychological approach to the study of witchcraft cognition. He will deal with this subject in depth in his forthcoming book, Dentro la stregoneria. Peter Elmer, after seventeen years as a lecturer at the Open University in the UK, in September 2012 began a five year post as a Wellcome Trust funded Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, engaged on a project aiming to create a database of all men and women engaged in medical practice in England, Ireland, and Wales between about 1500 and 1715. The prosopographical nature of this research will form the basis of a major new appraisal of the place of medicine in early modern British society. Sarah Ferber is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wollongong. She is the author of Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France (2004). She contributed several entries to the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft (2006), and an essay on gender and demonic possession appeared in Alison Rowlands (ed.), Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe (2009). Sarah participated with Robin Briggs, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Denis Crouzet in a French docudrama L'énergumène (ed. Jean Loïc Portron, 2010), on the life of the demoniac Marthe Brossier. Page 3 of 10 Notes on Contributors Iris Gareis received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1987 and a Habilitation from Goethe-University, Frankfurt in 1999. She has taught at several German universities and in San Juan, Argentina. Currently she is extraordinary professor of Anthropology at Goethe-University, Frankfurt and interim professor of Latin American and Southwest- European History at Erfurt University. She is co-editor of the series ‘Hexenforschung’ (Witchcraft Research, Bielefeld) and author of numerous articles on witchcraft and related subjects, especially in the Hispanic and Lusophone world. Research interests include popular belief systems and cultures of knowledge, as well as gender and transculturation. (p. xi) Malcolm Gaskill is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Educated at Cambridge University, he has taught at five UK universities and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of numerous studies relating to witchcraft, including four books: Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (2000), Hellish Nell: Last of Britain’s Witches (2001), Witchfinders: a Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (2005), and Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction (2010). His latest work is a study of culture and mentality in seventeenth-century America, culminating in the Salem witch- trials, to be published in 2013. Richard Godbeer is Professor of History at the University of Miami. He is author of The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England (1992), Sexual Revolution in Early America (2002), Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (2005), The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic (2009), and The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents (2011). Page 4 of 10 Notes on Contributors Julian Goodare is Reader in History, University of Edinburgh. His books include State and Society in Early Modern Scotland (1999), The Government of Scotland, 1560–1625 (2004), The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context (Manchester, 2002) (as editor), and Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland (2008) (as co-editor with Lauren Martin and Joyce Miller). He is currently writing The European Witch-Hunt for Routledge. He was Director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, which went online in 2003. Rune Blix Hagen is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Religious Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, at the University of Tromsø. His fields of research include the persecution of alleged witches in Arctic Norway, 1590–1695 and the relationship between shamanism and witchcraft. He has also written books and articles on early modern mentalities, historiography, and the discovery and exploration of the extreme north during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Tamar Herzig is a senior lecturer in early modern history at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the author of Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (2008). Her articles on fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italian inquisitors and demonologists were published in the Sixteenth Century Journal, Journal of Early Modern History and Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, and she also contributed entries to the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft (2006) and to the Dizionario Storico dell’Inquisizione. She is currently working on a book exploring the connection among the gendering of heresy, mystical sanctity, and witchcraft on the eve of the Reformation. Richard Kieckhefer teaches at Northwestern University, in the departments of Religious Studies and History. He works on the religious culture of late medieval Europe, including the history of witchcraft and magic. His publications in this area include (p. xii) European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture (1976), Magic in the Middle Ages (1989), and Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Handbook of the Fifteenth Century (1997). He also has a long-standing interest in the history of church-building as it relates to late medieval religion and society. Page 5 of 10
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