Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Studies in Culture and Belief

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Edited by Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester and Gareth Roberts

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published March 1998, 384 pages, paper

ISBN 0521638755

New in paper! An up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft. The contributors build on and respond to the issues raised in Keith Thomas'' classic study Religion and the Decline of Magic, and suggest a greater emphasis on cultural history, notably issues of power, gender and language. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.

Contributors: Jonathan Barry, Robin Brigs, Wolfgang Behringer, Brian Levack, Fernando Cervantes, Peter Elmer, Gareth Roberts, Lyndal Roper, Jim Sharpe, Malcolm Gaskill, Marianne Hester, Ian Bostridge, Willem de Blecourt