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Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers -
contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how
exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent
scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' concerns
remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the
judges' concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings
demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both
topics in their specific regional cultures. The book's chapters,
each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe,
from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and
Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various
intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological
thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and
ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a
thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and
witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe
is essential reading for all students and researchers of the
history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.
Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers -
contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how
exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent
scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' concerns
remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the
judges' concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings
demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both
topics in their specific regional cultures. The book's chapters,
each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe,
from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and
Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various
intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological
thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and
ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a
thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and
witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe
is essential reading for all students and researchers of the
history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.
The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people,
mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in
the name of religion and morality during three centuries of
intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America.
Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and
other disciplines, this book provides a comprehensive account of
witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Julian Goodare sets out an
original interpretation of witch-hunting as an episode of
ideologically-driven persecution by the 'godly state' in the era of
the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Full weight is also given
to the context of village social relationships, and there is a
detailed analysis of gender issues. Witch-hunting was a legal
operation, and the courts' rationale for interrogation under
torture is explained. Panicking local elites, rather than central
governments, were at the forefront of witch-hunting. Further
chapters explore folk beliefs about legendary witches, and
intellectuals' beliefs about a secret conspiracy of witches in
league with the Devil. Witch-hunting eventually declined when the
ideological pressure to combat the Devil's allies slackened. A
final chapter sets witch-hunting in the context of other episodes
of modern persecution. This book is the ideal resource for students
exploring the history of witch-hunting. Its level of detail and use
of social theory also make it important for scholars and
researchers.
The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in
Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense
religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and
the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book
focuses on the history that the Scots themselves made. The
seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in
Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense
religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and
the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book
focuses on the history that the Scots themselves made. Previous
conceptualisations of Scotland's "seventeenth century" have tended
to define it as falling between 1603 and 1707 - the union of crowns
and the union of parliaments. In contrast, this book asks how
seventeenth-century Scotland would look if we focused on things
that the Scots themselves wanted and chose to do. Here the key
organising dates are not 1603 and 1707 but 1638and 1689: the
covenanting revolution and the Glorious Revolution. Within that
framework, the book develops several core themes. One is regional
and local: the book looks at the Highlands and the Anglo-Scottish
Borders. The increasing importance of money in politics and the
growing commercialisation of Scottish society is a further theme
addressed. Chapters on this theme, like those on the nature of the
Scottish Revolution, also discuss central governmentand illustrate
the growth of the state. A third theme is political thought and the
world of ideas. The intellectual landscape of seventeenth-century
Scotland has often been perceived as less important and less
innovative, and suchperceptions are explored and in some cases
challenged in this volume. Two stories have tended to dominate the
historiography of seventeenth-century Scotland: Anglo-Scottish
relations and religious politics. One of the recentleitmotifs of
early modern British history has been the stress on the
"Britishness" of that history and the interaction between the three
kingdoms which constituted the "Atlantic archipelago". The two
revolutions at the heart ofthe book were definitely Scottish, even
though they were affected by events elsewhere. This is Scottish
history, but Scottish history which recognises and is informed by a
British context where appropriate. The interconnected nature of
religion and politics is reflected in almost every contribution to
this volume. SHARON ADAMS is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
University of Freiburg. JULIAN GOODARE is Reader in History at the
University of Edinburgh. Contributors: Sharon Adams, Caroline
Erskine, Julian Goodare, Anna Groundwater, Maurice Lee Jnr,
Danielle McCormack, Alasdair Raffe, Laura Rayner, Sherrilynn
Theiss, Sally Tuckett, Douglas Watt
The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people,
mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in
the name of religion and morality during three centuries of
intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America.
Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and
other disciplines, this book provides a comprehensive account of
witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Julian Goodare sets out an
original interpretation of witch-hunting as an episode of
ideologically-driven persecution by the 'godly state' in the era of
the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Full weight is also given
to the context of village social relationships, and there is a
detailed analysis of gender issues. Witch-hunting was a legal
operation, and the courts' rationale for interrogation under
torture is explained. Panicking local elites, rather than central
governments, were at the forefront of witch-hunting. Further
chapters explore folk beliefs about legendary witches, and
intellectuals' beliefs about a secret conspiracy of witches in
league with the Devil. Witch-hunting eventually declined when the
ideological pressure to combat the Devil's allies slackened. A
final chapter sets witch-hunting in the context of other episodes
of modern persecution. This book is the ideal resource for students
exploring the history of witch-hunting. Its level of detail and use
of social theory also make it important for scholars and
researchers.
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from
angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination,
prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural,
religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland
put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The
supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of
understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and
emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and
future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has
much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought
about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising
twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The
supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and
elite understandings of the supernatural. -- .
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from
angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination,
prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural,
religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland
put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The
supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of
understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and
emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and
future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has
much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought
about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising
twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The
supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and
elite understandings of the supernatural. -- .
A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting,
which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the
mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of
particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of the role of
King James VI. Covers a wide range of topics concerned with
Scottish witch-hunting and places it in the context of other topics
such as gender relations, folklore, magic and healing, and moral
regulation by the church and state. Provides a comparative
dimension of witch-hunting beyond Scotland - one on the global
context, and one comparing Scotland with England. It is a showcase
for the latest thinking on the subject and will be of interest to
all scholars studying witchcraft in early modern Europe, as well as
the general reader wanting to move beyond shallow and sensational
accounts of a subject of compelling in. -- .
In The Government of Scotland 1560-1625 Goodare shows how Scotland
was governed during the transition from Europe's decentralized
medieval realms to modern sovereign states. The expanding
institutions of government - crown, parliament, privy council,
local courts - are detailed, but the book is structured around an
analysis of governmental processes. A new framework is offered for
understanding the concept of 'centre and localities':
centralization happened in the localities.
Various interest groups participated in government and influenced
its decisions. The nobility, in particular, exercised influence at
every level. There was also English influence, both before and
after the union of crowns in 1603. It is argued that the crown's
continuing involvement after 1603 shows the common idea of
'absentee monarchy' to be misconceived. Goodare also pays
particular attention to the harsh impact of government in the
Highlands - where the chiefs were not full members of 'Scottish'
political society - and on the common people - who were also
excluded from normal political participation.
This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland -- like larger and better-known states -- developed a more integrated governmental system in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study provides an invaluable new contribution to the history of Scotland.
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