Male witches in early modern Europe

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agency theory
agent-centred morality
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demonological illustrations
early modern Europe
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European witch-hunting
feminised witchcraft
Jules Michelet
Kantian internalist categories
male witches
selfhood
Stuart Clark
William Monter
witchcraft studies
witches' agency

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  • ISBN 9780719057090
  • Weight: 240g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jan 2003
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.



Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-hunting, challenging the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. Shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. It uses feminist categories of gender analysis to challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies providing a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms than has hitherto been available.

Lara Apps is Graduate Student Ombudsperson at the University of Alberta, where she received a Master’s degree in History in 2000. Andrew Gow is Professor of History at the University of Alberta

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