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"The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers t…
The tree of the Bourlémonts : gendered beliefs in fairies and their transmission from old to young women in Joan of Arc's Domrémy / Andrea Maraschi -- The rejuvenating blood : Marsilio Ficino and the witches / Marina Montesano -- The circulation and exchange of ideas, myths, leg…
The tree of the Bourlémonts : gendered beliefs in fairies and their transmission from old to young women in Joan of Arc's Domrémy / Andrea Maraschi -- The rejuvenating blood : Marsilio Ficino and the witches / Marina Montesano -- The circulation and exchange of ideas, myths, leg…
"Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa reconstructs the biography of an ordinary South African, Jimmy Mohale. Born in 1964, Jimmy came of age in rural South Africa during apartheid, then studied at university and worked as a teacher during the anti-apartheid struggle. In…
"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for peop…
"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for peop…
This study explores cases in which men were accused of witchcraft in England and the British colonies of New England between 1592 and 1692. Using a series of case studies that begin in Elizabethan Norfolk and end with the Salem trials in Massachusetts, this book examines six ind…
This study explores cases in which men were accused of witchcraft in England and the British colonies of New England between 1592 and 1692. Using a series of case studies that begin in Elizabethan Norfolk and end with the Salem trials in Massachusetts, this book examines six ind…
"This work of African philosophy and theology uses the thought of Emmanuel Levinas to provide an analysis of tfu (witchcraft) among the Wimbum people of Cameroon along with a critique of intersubjective relations. Taking an approach he calls "critical contextualism," author Elia…
'Magic and Medieval Society' presents a thematic approach to the topic of magic and sorcery in Western Europe between the 11th and 15th century. It provides readers with the conceptual and documentary tools to reach informed conclusions as to the existence, nature, importance an…
"This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England. In this period the question of how to prove the crime of witchcraft was the centre…
"This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England. In this period the question of how to prove the crime of witchcraft was the centre…