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Thinking With Demons:

The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
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Oxford University Press, 1999 - History - 827 pages
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.
  

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This is a difficult but rewarding book to read. I can't say I understood everything but I did learn many new ways to think about the period. Clark presents not simply ideas about witchcraft and demons ... Read full review

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Stuart Clark has attempted to re-think the great European witch-hunt in terms of the cultural turn, and has added a great deal to our understand thereof. He points out that previous approaches have ...

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Contents

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
WitchCleansing
375
Understanding Possession
389
Possession Exorcism and History
401
Before Loudun
423
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
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
Posticrspt
683
Btibliography A Items before 1800
687
B Items after 1800
726
Index
773
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Witchcraft in Early Modern England bibliography
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About the author (1999)

Stuart Clark is at University of Swansea.

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