Between the devil and the host
| Titel: | Between the devil and the host : imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland / Michael Ostling |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011 |
| Umfang: | IX, 279 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. ; 23x16 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Past and present publications |
| ISBN: | 9780199587902 ; 0199587906 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Kurzbeschreibung Ausführliche Beschreibung |
X
- List of Figures and Tables
- p. xiii
- Maps
- p. xiv
- introduction: At the Crossroads
- p. 1
- I
- History
- 1
- Contexts
- p. 11
- 2
- Imagining Witchcraft in Literature and Law
- p. 45
- 3
- A Winding Road to the Stake
- p. 61
- 4
- Mechanisms of Justice
- p. 91
- II
- Religion
- 5
- Healing and Harming
- p. 107
- 6
- Stealing the Sacred
- p. 140
- 7
- Broken Bodies
- p. 165
- 8
- Piety in the Torture Chamber
- p. 183
- III
- Demonology
- 9
- A Candle for the Devil
- p. 195
- 10
- Demon Lovers
- p. 209
- 11
- Translating the Devil
- p. 227
- Conclusions
- p. 239
- Appendix: Polish Witch-Trials 1511-1775
- p. 243
- References
- p. 254
- Index
- p. 275
