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Vexed with Devils - Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,122
Discovery Miles 21 220
Vexed with Devils - Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England (Hardcover): Erika Gasser

Vexed with Devils - Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England (Hardcover)

Erika Gasser

Series: Early American Places

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Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of interpretation, and sometimes public opinion, if these symptoms were visited upon the victim, or if they came from within. Both early modern England and colonial New England had cases that blurred the line between witchcraft and demonic possession, most famously, the Salem witch trials. While historians acknowledge some similarities in witch trials between the two regions, such as the fact that an overwhelming majority of witches were women, the histories of these cases primarily focus on local contexts and specifics. In so doing, they overlook the ways in which manhood factored into possession and witchcraft cases. Vexed with Devils is a cultural history of witchcraft-possession phenomena that centers on the role of men and patriarchal power. Erika Gasser reveals that witchcraft trials had as much to do with who had power in the community, to impose judgement or to subvert order, as they did with religious belief. She argues that the gendered dynamics of possession and witchcraft demonstrated that contested meanings of manhood played a critical role in the struggle to maintain authority. While all men were not capable of accessing power in the same ways, many of the people involved-those who acted as if they were possessed, men accused of being witches, and men who wrote possession propaganda-invoked manhood as they struggled to advocate for themselves during these perilous times. Gasser ultimately concludes that the decline of possession and witchcraft cases was not merely a product of change over time, but rather an indication of the ways in which patriarchal power endured throughout and beyond the colonial period. Vexed with Devils reexamines an unnerving time and offers a surprising new perspective on our own, using stories and voices which emerge from the records in ways that continue to fascinate and unsettle us.

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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Early American Places
Release date: July 2017
Authors: Erika Gasser
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-3179-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Witchcraft
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Witchcraft
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LSN: 1-4798-3179-4
Barcode: 9781479831791

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