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- ISBN 9781041254812
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Feeling with Demons offers a renewed approach to early modern witchcraft through the lens of the history of emotions. It examines the intellectual, judicial, and emotional frameworks that shaped witch-hunting in Old and New England, as well as the personal and communal tensions that fuelled accusations, their connections to demonic possession, and the arguments advanced by those who challenged the trials.
Drawing on demonological treatises, sermons, witchcraft pamphlets, and trial records, the book investigates the emotional worlds of accused witches, victims, witnesses, and judicial and religious authorities. It asks which feelings demonologists encouraged or condemned; which emotions contemporaries associated with witchcraft; how alleged victims understood their affective experiences; how the accused were expected to respond before judges and juries; and what it meant, emotionally, to undergo demonic possession. By examining what people feared, hated, envied, despised, or raged against, Feeling with Demons opens revealing windows onto the experiences and lives of early modern men and women in the English Atlantic.
This book speaks to students and researchers of witchcraft, witch-hunting, and demonology, as well as to readers interested in the humanities, the social sciences, and Christian religious thought. Its emotional perspective also fosters dialogue with psychology, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, gender studies, philosophy, and theology.
Agustín Méndez is a Professor and PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires. His research focuses on the intellectual foundations of witch-hunting and the emotional dimensions of witchcraft in the early modern English Atlantic. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and is the author of El Infierno está vacío. Demonología, caza de brujas y reforma en la Inglaterra temprano-moderna (s. XVI y XVII) (2020). He is currently an Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and a faculty member in the Department of Humanities at the National University of La Matanza.
