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Witchcraft in the Middle Ages

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Cornell University Press, 1972 - Religion - 394 pages
All the known theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century are brilliantly set forth in this engaging and comprehensive history.Building on a foundation of newly discovered primary sources and recent secondary interpretations, Professor Russell first establishes the facts and then explains the phenomenon of witchcraft in terms of its social and religious environment, particularly in relation to medieval heresies. He treats European witchcraft as a product of Christianity, grounded in heresy more than in the magic and sorcery that have existed in other societies. Skillfully blending narration with analysis, he shows how social and religious changes nourished the spread of witchcraft until large portions of medieval Europe were in its grip—"from the most illiterate peasant to the most skilled philosopher or scientist."A significant chapter in the history of ideas and their repression is illuminated by this book. Our growing fascination with the occult gives the author's affirmation that witchcraft arises at times and in areas afflicted with social tensions a special quality of immediacy.
  

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Review: Witchcraft in the Middle Ages

User Review  - Ned Leffingwell - Goodreads

This is a well written sociological explanation of the witchcraft phenomena in Europe in the Middle Ages. The author shows how pagan beliefs and superstitions were amalgamated during a time a rapid ... Read full review

Review: Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic ACT

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This book is nothing to write home about. It never really 'spoke' to me and so it was a struggle to make it through the book.

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Contents

The Meaning of Witchcraft
2
Witchcraft in History
27
The Transformation of Paganism 300700
45
Popular Witchcraft and Heresy 7001140
63
Demonology Catharism and Witchcraft 11401230
101
Antinomianism Scholasticism and the Inquisition
134
Witchcraft and Rebellion in Medieval Society 1300
168
The Beginning of the Witch Craze 13601427
199
The Classical Formulation of the Witch Phenomenon
228
Witchcraft and the Medieval Mind
265
Bibliography
345
Index
379
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JSTOR: Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. By JEFFREY BURTON RUSSELL. Ithaca and Lon- don: Corell University Press, 1972. 394 pp. $15.00. "To understand witchcraft we ...
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Witchcraft in the Middle Ages Witchcraft in Europe: 1000-1700 A Documentary History. Ed. Alan C. Kors and Edward Peters. ...
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Antecedents of Contemporary Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972), pp.4-. 9Joseph Hansen,. Zauberwan, Inquisition und Hexenprozess im Mittelalter ...
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The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Essays
The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell. Edited by Alberto Ferreiro. Cultures, Beliefs and Tradit.
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Important studies of the origins of witchcraft in the Middle Ages are Richard Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned ...
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Devil Worship in the Middle Ages
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