The Damned Art (RLE Witchcraft) Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft [Hardcover]

This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts  published in England, France, Germany, Italy and America  setting them within their intellectual context and analysing both their style and argument.

1. Evident Authority and Authoritative Evidence: The MalleusMaleficarum. Sydney Anglo  2. Witchcraft and Magic In Renaissance Italy: Gianfranceco Pico and his Strix Peter Burke  3. Johann Weyers De Praestigiis Daemonum: Unsystematic Psychopathology Christopher Baxter  4. Jean Bodins De la D?monomanie des Sorciers: The Logic of Persecution Christopher Baxter  5. Reginald Scots Discoverie of Witchcraft: Scepticism and Sadduceeism Sydney Anglo  6. A Tudor Anthropologist: George Giffords Discourseand Dialogue Alan MacFarlane  7. King Jamess Daemonlogie: Witchcraft and Kingship Stuart Clark  8. Pierre De Lancres Tableau de lInconstance des Mauvais Anges et Demons: The Sabbat Sensationalised Margaret M McGowan  9. Cotton Mathers Wonders of the Invisible World: Some Metamorphoses of Salem Witchcraft M. Wynn Thomas  10. Two Late Scottish Witchcraft Tracts: Witch-Craft Provenand The Tryal of Witchcraft Christina Larner  Epilogue: The Desiderata of Disbelief Sydney Anglo