Witch in the Western Imagination (Richard Lectures (Hardcover))

Name: Witch in the Western Imagination (Richard Lectures (Hardcover))
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ISBN: 9780813932972

ISBN-10: 0813932971

ISBN-13: 9780813932972

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lyndal Roper

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In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and instead considers the witch as a symbolic and malleable figure through a broad sweep of topics and time periods.Employing a wide selection of archival, literary, and visual materials, Roper presents a series of thematic studies that range from the role of emotions in Renaissance culture to demonology as entertainment, and from witchcraft as female embodiment to the clash of cultures on the brink of the…

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List price: $43.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 8/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

CRIS BEAM is a journalist who has written for several national magazines as well as for public radio. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia and the New School. She lives in New York.Lyndal Roper is professor of history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Witchcraft and the Western Imagination



The Gorgon of Augsburg



Dï¿½er's Empty Frame



Envy



Witchcraft and Village Drama



Witches' Children



The Suicidal Student


Notes


Index