Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern EuropeOxford University Press, 1999 - 827 sivua This is a work of fundamental importance for our understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe. Stuart Clark offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals based on their publications in the field of demonology, and shows how these beliefs fitted rationally with many other views current in Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Clark is the first to explore the appeal of demonology to early modern intellectuals by looking at the books they published on the subject during this period. After examining the linguistic foundations of their writings, the author shows how the writers' ideas about witchcraft (and about magic) complemented their other intellectual commitments--in particular, their conceptions of nature, history, religion, and politics. The result is much more than a history of demonology. It is a survey of wider intellectual and ideological purposes, and underlines just how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context. |
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Witchcraft and Language | 3 |
Festivals and Sabbats | 11 |
Dual Classification | 31 |
Contrariety | 43 |
Inversion | 69 |
The Devil Gods Ape | 80 |
Witchcraft and WitCraft | 94 |
Women and Witchcraft | 106 |
Understanding Possession | 389 |
Possession Exorcism and History | 401 |
Before Loudun | 423 |
RELIGION | 435 |
Witchcraft and Religion | 437 |
Cases of Conscience | 445 |
Popular Magic | 457 |
Superstition | 472 |
Unstable Meanings | 134 |
SCIENCE | 149 |
Witchcraft and Science | 151 |
The Devil in Nature | 161 |
The Causes of Witchcraft | 179 |
Believers and Sceptics | 195 |
Natural Magic | 214 |
Demonic Magic | 233 |
Prerogative Instances 1 | 251 |
Prerogative Instances 2 | 259 |
The Magical Power of Signs | 281 |
Witchcraft and the Scientific Revolution | 294 |
HISTORY | 313 |
Witchcraft and History | 315 |
Postremus Furor Satanae | 321 |
Eschatology | 335 |
The Life and Times of the Antichrist | 346 |
The Witch as Portent | 363 |
WitchCleansing | 375 |
Reformation | 489 |
Acculturation by Text | 509 |
Protestant Witchcraft Catholic Witchcraft | 526 |
POLITICS | 547 |
Witchcraft and Politics | 549 |
Magistrates and Witches | 560 |
Inviolability | 572 |
The Charisma of Office | 582 |
Mystical Politics | 602 |
Marvellous Monarchy | 619 |
Spectacles of Disenchantment | 634 |
Kingcraft and Witchcraft | 655 |
Bodins Political Demonology | 668 |
Postscript | 683 |
Bibliography A Items before 1800 | 687 |
B Items after 1800 | 726 |
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