The Basque Witch-Hunt
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44150-7 (ISBN)
Newly discovered evidence paints a very different, still darker picture, revealing a secret history underneath de Lancre’s well-known tale. Far from an outside imposition, witchcraft was a home-grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch-Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan, married into the Basque nobility. Living at the Franco-Spanish border, the Basques were victims of geography. Geo-politics caused a local conflict which made the witch-hunt inevitable. The same forces eventually sent thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they, in turn, became new objects of popular fear and anger.
The Basque witch-hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong.
Jan Machielsen is a historian at Cardiff University, UK, with an interest in witches, demons, and saints. His previous publications include The War on Witchcraft (2021) and The Science of Demons (2020).
Figures
Maps
Naming Conventions
Dramatis Personae
Chronology
Introduction: The Summer of 1609
Part 1: A Perfect Storm
1. Living on the Edge
2. Beginnings (1603–1608)
Part 2: Outsiders
3. Judging the Judges
4. Throwing Roosters at Lions
5. Between a Rock and an Anchor
6. The Royal Will
Part 3: The Commission (1609)
7. Into the Devil’s Snare
8. Of Village Musicians and Dancing Queens
9. Child Spies
10. Opposition
Part 4: Aftermath (1610–1619)
11. Too Many Witches
12. Spiritual Solutions
13. New Witch Bottles
Epilogue: Acts of Remembrance
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 24.09.2024 |
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Zusatzinfo | 3 Maps |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-44150-3 / 1350441503 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-44150-7 / 9781350441507 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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