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Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture
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Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture Hardcover - 2000

by Stuart Clark


From the publisher

Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After three decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, they turn instead to its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the 'languages' of witchcraft, rather than its causes. As a result, witchcraft seems less startling than it once was, yet more revealing of the world in which it occurred.

Details

  • Title Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture
  • Author Stuart Clark
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 241
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Red Globe Press, London
  • Date 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780333793480 / 033379348X
  • Library of Congress subjects Witchcraft - Europe - History - 16th century, Witchcraft - Europe - History - 17th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00033302
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133.43

About the author

STUART CLARK is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.