Download or read book Die Salemer Hexenverfolgungen written by Winfried Herget and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evil People written by Johannes Dillinger and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions—Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier—he provides a nuanced explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed over 1,300 lives in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. Dillinger finds that, far from representing the centralizing aggression of emerging early states against local cultures, witch hunts were almost always driven by members of the middling and lower classes in cities and villages, and they were stopped only when early modern states acquired the power to control their localities. Situating his study in the context of a pervasive magical worldview that embraced both orthodox Christianity and folk belief, Dillinger shows that, in some cases, witch trials themselves were used as magical instruments, designed to avert threats of impending divine wrath. "Evil People" describes a two-century evolution in which witch hunters who liberally bestowed the label "evil people" on others turned into modern images of evil themselves. In the original German, "Evil People" won the Friedrich Spee Award as an outstanding contribution to the history of witchcraft.
Download or read book Reformation and Early Modern Europe written by David M. Whitford and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe.
Download or read book Witchcraft Madness Society and Religion in Early Modern Germany written by H.C. Erik Midelfort and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.C. Erik Midelfort has carved out a reputation for innovative work on early modern German history, with a particular focus on the social history of ideas and religion. This collection pulls together some of his best work on the related subjects of witchcraft, the history of madness and psychology, demonology, exorcism, and the social history of religious change in early modern Europe. Several of the pieces reprinted here constitute reviews of recent scholarly literature on their topics, while others offer sharp departures from conventional wisdom. A critique of Michel Foucault’s view of the history of madness proved both stimulating but irritating to Foucault’s most faithful readers, so it is reprinted here along with a short retrospective comment by the author. Another focus of this collection is the social history of the Holy Roman Empire, where towns, peasants, and noble families developed different perceptions of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and of the options the religious revolutions of the sixteenth century offered. Finally, this collection also brings together articles which show how Freudian psychoanalysis and academic sociology have filtered and interpreted the history of early modern Germany.
Download or read book Newton and Religion written by J.E. Force and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the `new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as revealed in his intellectual context.
Download or read book Newton and Newtonianism written by J.E. Force and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newton's theology, his study of alchemy, the early reception of Newtonianism, & the history of Newtonian scholarship are topics included in the eleven essays that comprise this volume.
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography written by J. Barry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Crone written by Linda Jean Lee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Der Einfluss der puritanischen Geistlichen auf den Ausbruch der Salemer Hexenverfolgungen 1692 written by Fabian Fuchs and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Hexenverfolgung im frühneuzeitlichen Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Salemer Hexenverfolgungen von 1692 stellen ein wichtiges und einzigartiges Ereignis in der Geschichte Nordamerikas dar. Bei den Prozessen wurden ungefähr 20 Menschen als vermeintliche Hexen zum Tode verurteilt und gehängt. Im Vergleich zu den massiven Hexenverfolgungen in Europa könnte man die Fälle in Salem als unwesentlich abtun, aber sie unterscheiden sich von den europäischen Exzessen in einigen Punkten. Die geistige Basis der Hexenjagden in Europa war der "Malleus Maleficarum" (Hexenhammer), der den Verfolgern Kriterien und Instruktionen für das Erkennen, die Wirkung und das Foltern von Hexen an die Hand gab. Dieser wurde in Nordamerika nicht verwendet. Außerdem wurden die Verfolgungen und Prozesse von der Salemer Stadt- und Dorfgemeinschaft organisiert, wohingegen in Europa hauptsächlich die Kirche dafürverantwortlich war. Diese Hausarbeit untersucht den Einfluss der puritanischen Geistlichen auf den Ausbruch der Salemer Hexenprozesse. Einerseits werde ich die Schriften und Werke dreier dieser Personen vorstellen und analysieren, inwieweit sie magisches und die Hexerei betreffendes Gedankengut enthalten und wie dieses die Bücher und Predigten rezipierende Bevölkerung in Neuengland beeinflusst hat. Das damalige Gemeinwesen Salems war puritanisch geführt und organisiert, und der Einfluss dieser christlichen Reformbewegung auf das gesellschaftliche Leben war hoch. Die Fragestellung ist nun diejenige, ob puritanische Geistliche die Hauptverantwortlichen für den Ausbruch der Verfolgungen sind, ob sie als Opfer selbst darunter zu leiden hatten oder ob sich beides die Waage hält. Zuerst werde ich einen kurzen Abriss über die Geschichte und Herkunft des Puritanismus geben. Danach betrachte
Download or read book Emotion in Postmodernism written by Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 1997 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America Bewitched The Story of Witchcraft After Salem written by Owen Davies and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day. The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of modern America, the human toll a reminder of the dangers of intolerance and persecution. The refrain Remember Salem! was invoked frequently over the ensuing centuries. As time passed, the trials became a milepost measuring the distance America had progressed from its colonial past, its victims now the righteous and their persecutors the shamed. Yet the story of witchcraft did not end as the American Enlightenment dawned - a new,long, and chilling chapter was about to begin.Witchcraft after Salem was not just a story of fire-side tales, legends, and superstitions: it continued to be a matter of life and death, souring the American dream for many. We know of more people killed as witches between 1692 and the 1950s than were executed before it. Witches were part of the story of the decimation of the Native Americans, the experience of slavery and emancipation, and the immigrant experience; they were embedded in the religious and social history of the country. Yetthe history of American witchcraft between the eighteenth and the twentieth century also tells a less traumatic story, one that shows how different cultures interacted and shaped each others languages and beliefs. This is therefore much more than the tale of one persecuted community: it opens a fascinating window on the fears, prejudices, hopes, and dreams of the American people as their country rose from colony to superpower.
Download or read book Salem Falls written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scholars of Early Modern Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English and American studies in German written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summaries of theses and monographs.
Download or read book The Specter of Salem written by Gretchen A. Adams and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Specter of Salem, Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the new nation’s progress from a disorderly and brutal past to a rational present, while critics of new religious movements in the 1830s cast them as a return to Salem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil War, southerners evoked witch burning to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, Adams ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation. “Imaginative and thoughtful. . . . Thought-provoking, informative, and convincingly presented, The Specter of Salem is an often spellbinding mix of politics, cultural history, and public historiography.”— New England Quarterly “This well-researched book, forgoing the usual heft of scholarly studies, is not another interpretation of the Salem trials, but an important major work within the scholarly literature on the witch-hunt, linking the hysteria of the period to the evolving history of the American nation. A required acquisition for academic libraries.”—Choice, Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Download or read book The Lost Book of Salem written by Katherine Howe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials. But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverance's spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find this precious artefact at any cost. What secrets does the Physick Book contain? What magic is scrawled across its parchment pages? Connie must race to answer these questions - and reveal the truth about Salem's women - before an ancient family curse once more fulfils its dark and devastating prophecy . . .
Download or read book Witchcraft in Salem Village written by John Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
