Introduction: Expanding the Analysis of Traditional Belief.....Kathryn A. Edwards
Dangerous Spirits: Shapeshifting, Apparitions, and Fantasy in Lorraine Witchcraft Trials.....Robin Briggs
Living with the Dead: Ghosts in Early Modern Bavaria.....David Lederer
Reformed or Recycled? Possession and Exorcism in the Sacramental Life of Early Modern France.....Sarah Ferber
Revisiting El Encubierto: Navigating between Visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth.....Sara T. Nalle
Worms and the Jews: Jews, Magic, and Community in Seventeenth-Century Worms.....Dean Phillip Bell
Asmodea: A Nun-Witch in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany.....Anne Jacobson Schutte
When Witches Became False: Séducteurs and Crédules Confront the Paris Police at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century.....Ulrike Krampl
God Killed Saul: Heinrich Bullinger and Jacob Ruef on the Power of the Devil.....Bruce Gordon
Such an Impure, Cruel, and Savage Beast... : Images of the Werewolf in Demonological Works.....Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre
Charcot, Freud, and the Demons.....H. C. Erik Midelfort
Contributors
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Kathryn A. Edwards is associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Her publications include Families and Frontiers: Re-Creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies, “Female Sociability, Physicality, and Authority in an Early Modern Haunting” (Journal of Social History), and The History of the Apparition of a Spirit.
"Highly recommended..." -- The Cauldron, May 2003. "This book is a real pleasure to read. ...The editor provides a skilful introduction that helps contextualise and draw out the common themes emerging from such a diverse range of essays." -- Owen Davies, Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Issue 2, 2004.
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