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| Introduction | vii | |
| Part 1 | The Decline and End of Witchcraft Prosecutions | 1 |
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Chapter 1 | General Reasons for the Decline in Prosecutions | 7 |
| Judicial Scepticism and Procedural Caution | 7 | |
| Changes in Witch-Beliefs | 33 | |
| Religious Changes | 40 | |
| Social and Economic Changes | 44 | |
| Chapter 2 | Patterns and Dynamics of Decline: Five Case-Studies (France, England, Scotland, Germany -- Wurttemberg, Hungary) | 48 |
| Chapter 3 | The End of Prosecutions | 74 |
| The Process of Decriminalization | 74 | |
| Judicial Effects of the Decline | 78 | |
| Conclusion | 86 | |
| Part 2 | Witchcraft After the Witch-Trials | 95 |
| Introduction | 97 | |
| Chapter 1 | From the Low Countries to France | 102 |
| The Netherlands and the Enchanted World | 102 | |
| Belgium: From Witch-trials to Witch-lynchings? | 113 | |
| France: Witches, Priests and the Ambiguity of Unwitching | 117 | |
| Chapter 2 | From the Mediterranean Countries to the British Isles, and Scandinavia | 129 |
| The Mediterranean Countries: From the Inquisition with Love | 129 | |
| The British Isles: Fairies and Witches, Fire and Water | 141 | |
| Scandinavia: Divergent Gender Patterns | 151 | |
| Chapter 3 | From Eastern and Central Europe to Germany and Switzerland | 157 |
| Eastern and Central Europe: Witches, Vampires and more | 157 | |
| Germany and the Devil | 162 | |
| Switzerland: The End of the Journey | 173 | |
| Conclusion: Cultures of Misfortune: Towards a Disenchanted Europe? | 175 | |
| Part 3 | Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment, Romantic and Liberal Thought | 191 |
| Chapter 1 | Controversy c. 1680-1800 | 193 |
| Introduction | 193 | |
| The Decline of Witch Practices and Beliefs in England | 194 | |
| Changing Mind-Sets: Religion, Philosophy and Science | 197 | |
| Eighteenth-Century Witchcraft Debates | 199 | |
| Challenges to Witch Beliefs and Practices on the Continent | 211 | |
| Chapter 2 | The Enlightenment Crusade | 219 |
| Introduction | 219 | |
| Voltaire and the Philosophes | 219 | |
| The Status of Superstition | 225 | |
| The Role of Medicine | 226 | |
| Conclusion | 235 | |
| Chapter 3 | Culture and the Supernatural c. 1680-1800 | 237 |
| Introduction | 237 | |
| The Reformation of Popular Culture | 240 | |
| Survival: Art and Literature | 245 | |
| Rebirth: The Occult in the Secular World | 250 | |
| Chapter 4 | The Disenchantment of the World in the Nineteenth Century | 255 |
| Introduction: Pathologies of Superstition | 255 | |
| The Grand Theory of Secularization | 263 | |
| The Psychopathology of Witchcraft and Magic | 267 | |
| The Return of the Repressed | 272 | |
| Conclusion: Secularization | 274 | |
| Bibliography | 283 | |
| Index | 324 |
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Peter Silvestri
reviewed Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries on December 03, 2014
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5
Useful; fairly dry but readable. part 1 focuses on the decline and end of witchcraft prosecutions; part 2: witchcraft after the witch-trials (region-by-region account); part 3: witchcraft and magic in enlightenment romantic and liberal thought. the focus is definitely more heavily on accusations and inquisitors than on the particulars of peasant culture and practices (in contrast to "the night battles" by carlo ginzburg.) good theories and questions in this historical account. definitely more of a research read than a lay-reader's pleasure.
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