| Contents |
Introduction / Owen Davies and Jonathan Barry -- The contemporary historical debate, 1400-1750 / Peter Maxwell-Stuart -- Science, medicine and witchcraft / Peter Elmer -- The nineteenth century: medievalism and witchcraft / Christa Tuczay -- The reality of witch cults reasserted: fertility and satanism / Juliette Wood -- The witch-craze as Holocaust: the rise of persecuting societies / Raisa Maria Toivo -- Culture wars: state, religion and popular culture in Europe, 1400-1800 / Marko Nenonen -- The return of the Sabbat: mental archaeologies, conjectural histories or political mythologies? / Willem de Blécourt -- Crime and the law / Brian P. Levack -- Thinking witchcraft: language, literature and intellectual history / Marion Gibson -- Gender, mind and body: feminism and psychoanalysis / Katharine Hodgkin -- Continuity and change: social science perspectives on European witchcraft / Richard Jenkins -- Writing witchcraft: the historians' history, the practioners' past / Jo Pearson. |
