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The War on Witchcraft - Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography (Paperback)
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The War on Witchcraft - Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the Origins of Witchcraft Historiography (Paperback)
Series: Elements in Magic
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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Historians of the early modern witch-hunt often begin histories of
their field with the theories propounded by Margaret Murray and
Montague Summers in the 1920s. They overlook the lasting impact of
nineteenth-century scholarship, in particular the contributions by
two American historians, Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) and
George Lincoln Burr (1857-1938). Study of their work and scholarly
personae contributes to our understanding of the deeply embedded
popular understanding of the witch-hunt as representing an
irrational past in opposition to an enlightened present. Yet the
men's relationship with each other, and with witchcraft sceptics -
the heroes of their studies - also demonstrates how their writings
were part of a larger war against 'unreason'. This Element thus
lays bare the ways scholarly masculinity helped shape witchcraft
historiography, a field of study often seen as dominated by
feminist scholarship. Such meditation on past practice may foster
reflection on contemporary models of history writing.
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