Beyond the Witch Trials
Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe is an academic anthology edited by the historians Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt. It was first published by Manchester University Press in 2004. Containing ten separate papers by different academics active in the field, the book dealt with the continued practice of magic and the belief in witchcraft in Europe following the end of the Witch trials in the Early Modern period.
 The first edition cover. | |
| Author | Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt (editors) |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | History of Magic |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 211 |
| ISBN | 978-0719066603 |
The same year, Manchester University Press would bring out a companion anthology, also edited by Davies and Blécourt. Entitled Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern Europe, it dealt with the period following the Enlightenment.
Synopsis
Davies and De Blécourt's "Introduction"
Toivo's "Making (dis)order: witchcraft and the symbolics of hierarchy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland
Ferraiuolo's "Pro exoneratione sua propria conscientia: magic, witchcraft and Church in early eighteenth-century Capua"
Tausiet's "From illusion to disenchantment: Feijoo versus the 'falsely possessed' in eighteenth-century Spain"
Lennersand and Oja's "Responses to witchcraft in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden"
Maxwell-Stuart's "Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland"
Olli's "The Devil's pact: a male strategy"
Barry's "Public infidelity and private belief? The discourse of spirits in Enlightenment Bristol"
De Blécourt's "Evil people: a late eighteenth-century Dutch witch doctor and his clients"
Hoggard's "The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic"
Brian Hoggard, an independent researcher from Worcester, England, authored a paper looking at the subject of Enlightenment-era popular magic from an archaeological perspective. Noting that the only published book dealing with the archaeology of British folk magic was Ralph Merrifield's The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic (1987), he argues that archaeology can provide scholars with evidence of popular magical traditions that were not recorded in the literate sources of the period.[1]
Doering-Manteuffel and Bachter's "The dissemination of magical knowledge in Enlightenment Germany"
References
Footnotes
- Hoggard 2004. pp. 167–186.
Bibliography
- Hoggard, Brian (2004). "The archaeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic". Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. pp. 167–186. ISBN 978-0719066603.