" A pioneer work in… the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about
witchcraft."—Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University Confessing to" familiarity with the devils," …

What was witchcraft? Were witches real? How should witches be identified? How should
they be judged? Towards the end of the middle ages these were serious and important …

Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval
Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances …

The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet" bride of Christ" to the uppity
virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as …

This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the
14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors …

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Concern about persecution of person (s) accused of witchcraft practices has long been
recognized as a major issue in sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, the persecution of elderly …

While a strong consensus has emerged in the last generation about many sociocultural
aspects of witchcraft, the role of gender--why witchcraft was particularly but not exclusively …

Given the widespread belief in witchcraft and the existence of laws against such practices,
why did witch-trials fail to gain momentum and escalate into'witch-crazes' in certain parts of …

Imagining the Witch explores emotions, gender, and selfhood through the lens of witch-trials
in early modern Germany. Witch-trials were clearly a gendered phenomenon, but witchcraft …