Gerd Schwerhoff and Alex Kästner, eds., Göttlicher Zorn und menschliches Maß: Religiöse Abweichung in frühneuzeitlichen Stadtgemeinschaften (Constance: UVK, 2013)

This book presents six essays by researchers associated with the Technological University of Dresden’s collaborative research centre, Transzendenz und Gemeinsinn, on the interesting theme of religious deviance in early modern cities. As Gerd Schwerhoff and Alexander Kästner make clear in the introduction, early modern religious deviance is a broad concept, and one difficult to delimit, particularly because most early modern secular crimes—theft, adultery, witchcraft and magic, blasphemy—were also sins. Should such offences fall under the rubric of secular or religious deviance? Historians have traditionally approached these offences as secular (and indeed, they were commonly prosecuted in ‘secular’ courts), but one cannot help but see their religious roots. Moreover, religious deviance also encompassed divergence over confessional practices and doctrinal beliefs among Catholics, Protestants, Anabaptists, Calvinists, and so on. To try and demarcate this broad field, Schwerhoff and Kästner advocate using the ‘labelling approach’, drawn from sociology and previously used in Schwerhoff’s work: that is, behaviour only becomes deviant when contemporaries classified (or labelled) it as such (p. 27).

La figure de la sorcière dans la littérature du XIXe siècle (Jules Michelet, George Sand, Eliza Orzeszkowa)

The nineteenth century uncovered and analysed the tragic episodes of witch-hunting and ‘witch’ trials common in Renaissance Europe. Fascinating not only to historians, this subject also inspired men of letters who popularized the image of the witch as an old, ugly and evil person, who thus deserved her lot. Jules Michelet’s La sorcière of 1862 takes a very different approach. Simultaneously a literary and historical work, the book proved scandalous as it rehabilitated the figure of the witch, shedding favourable light on her image: it was the witch who was able to save a last spark of humanity in moments of despair; it was she who acted as comforter and healer to the people. In the context of nineteenth-century literature, certain works by female authors that focused on ‘witches,’ stand out. Whilst certain male authors (Michelet included) presented the witch as a figure from the past, who had finally perished in the 17th century, texts such as George Sand’s La petite Fadette (1848) or Eliza Orzeszkowa’s Dziurdziowie (1885), suggest that the end of witch trials did not imply an end to accusations, persecutions, and even executions of ‘witches’ – and, that in terms of culture, witchcraft or sorcery had not disappeared from the societies they knew.

Bond to Clement Maxfield, 30 March 1664

Stoughton's bond for forty pounds to the constable of Dorchester, Massachusetts, guaranteeing the appearance of Daniel Elders at court. Elders was the defendant in a suit brought by Mitchel Bacon of Woburn against Daniel Elders of Dorchester.

"Marido espiritual" : possessão e violência simbólica no sul de Moçambique

Tese de doutoramento, Antropologia (Antropologia da Religião e do Simbólico), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2016

A general catalogue of valuable and rare old books, in the ancient and modern languages, and various classes of literature; which are now on sale at the prices affixed to each,

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Dramas,

v. 1. Romiero: a tragedy. The alienated manor: a comedy. Henriquez: a tragedy. The martyr: a drama--v. 2. The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy.--v. 3. Witchcraft: a tragedy in prose. The homicide: a tragedy in prose, with occasional passages of verse. The bride: a drama. The match: a comedy. Appendix [notes, etc.]

Geschichte des wortes Hexe.

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The historical nights' entertainment. : First series.

The night of Holyrood; the murder of David Rizzio.--The night of Kirk o'Field; the murder of Darnley.--The night of betrayal; Antonio Perez and Philip II of Spain.--The night of charity; the case of the Lady Alice Lisle.--The night of massacre; the story of the Saint Bartholomew.--The night of witchcraft; Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan.--The night of gems; the affaire of the Queen's necklace.--The night of terror; the drownings at Nantes under Carrier.--The night of nuptials; Charles the Bold and Sapphira Danvelt.--The night of stranglers; Giovanna of Naples and Andreas of Hungary.--The night of hate; the murder of the Duke of Gandia.--The night of escape; Casanova's escape from the Piombi.--The night of masquerade; the assassination of Gustavus III of Sweden.

Darwinism, and other essays,

I. Darwinism verified.--II. Mr. Mivart on Darwinism.--III. Dr. Bateman on Darwinism.--IV. Dr. Büchner on Darwinism.--V. A crumb for the "modern symposium".--VI. Chauncey Wright.--VII. What is inspiration?--VIII. Modern witchcraft.--IX. Comte's positive philosophy.--X. Mr. Buckle's fallacies.--XI. Postscript on Mr. Buckle.--XII. The races of the Danube.--XIII. Liberal education.--XIV. University reform.--XV. A librarian's work.

Vier Paradoxa

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Dulcibel : a tale of old Salem /

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Sadducismus triumphatus: or, A full and plain evidence, concerning witches and apparitions. In two parts. The first treating of their possiblity. The second of their real existence.

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Procesos de indios idólatras y hechiceros /

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Realizing the Witch : Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible /

Realizing the Witch follows the unfolding of Benjamin Christensen’s visual narrative in his 1922 film, Häxan (The Witch). Through a close reading of Häxan, Baxstrom and Meyers examine the study of witchcraft from historical and anthropological perspectives, as well as the intersection of popular culture, artistic expression and scientific ideas. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.