Werewolf histories

by Blécourt, Willem de

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Title Statements

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

Summary

"Today, werewolves are primarily known through films: as humans who change into wolves under the influence of the full moon. Although this is a recent image, werewolves have a long, fragmented and discontinuous history. Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. On the basis of mostly new source material, varying from archaeological finds, demonological tracts, witchcraft trials, slander suits and nineteenth - and twentieth - century legends, its contributors cover the most important European werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia. Werewolf Histories calls for a more sophisticated, contextualised, and differentiated approach and hopes to be contagious enough to spawn more of its kind"--

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:ocn928388415
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

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