The War on Witchcraft

Released on by Jan Machielsen
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  • The War on Witchcraft Book Detail

  • Author : Jan Machielsen
  • Release Date : 2021-07-22
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 128
  • ISBN 13 : 1108956734
  • File Size : 14,14 MB
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The War on Witchcraft by Jan Machielsen PDF Summary

Book Description: Historians of the early modern witch-hunt often begin histories of their field with the theories propounded by Margaret Murray and Montague Summers in the 1920s. They overlook the lasting impact of nineteenth-century scholarship, in particular the contributions by two American historians, Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) and George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938). Study of their work and scholarly personae contributes to our understanding of the deeply embedded popular understanding of the witch-hunt as representing an irrational past in opposition to an enlightened present. Yet the men's relationship with each other, and with witchcraft sceptics – the heroes of their studies – also demonstrates how their writings were part of a larger war against 'unreason'. This Element thus lays bare the ways scholarly masculinity helped shape witchcraft historiography, a field of study often seen as dominated by feminist scholarship. Such meditation on past practice may foster reflection on contemporary models of history writing.

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