Werewolf histories

by Blécourt, Willem de

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Title Statements

Full title :Werewolf histories / edited by Willem de Blécourt.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 260 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781137526342, 1137526343, 9781137526359, 1137526351
oclc:on1308534613
LC Classification:GR830.W4
Dewey Decimal:398.24/54

Cover ; Title ; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology; 2 Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-Men in the Graeco-Roman World; 3 Into the Wild -- Old Norse Stories of Animal Men; 4 Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape-Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe; Interlude: Wolf-Riding; 5 'What about Some Good Wether?' Witches and Werewolves in Sixteenth-Century Italy; 6 'Species', 'Phantasia', 'Raison': Werewolves and Shape-Shifters in Demonological Literature.

7 The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphosis in the Peripheries of Western Europe8 The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany; Interlude: The Shepherd of Wolves; 9 Estonian Werewolf History; 10 The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Index.

Subjects

Folklore, myths & legends History HISTORY -- General. -- Europe History, Medieval Loups-garous -- Histoire Medieval History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology Werewolves Werewolves -- History