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Invoking the Akelarre: Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-craze, 16091614

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ISBN-13
9781845199999
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ISBN
9781845199999
Book Title
Invoking the Akelarre : Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-Craze, 16091614
Item Length
9.7in
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publication Year
2020
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1in
Author
Not Available
Genre
Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit, History
Topic
Europe / France, Europe / Spain & Portugal, General, Magick Studies
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
29.3 Oz
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 160914 provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical accounts of the witches sabbath or akelarre to have emerged from early modern Europe. While the trials have attracted scholarly attention, the most substantial monograph on the subject was written nearly forty years ago and most works have focused on the ways in which interrogators shaped the pattern of prosecutions and the testimonies of defendants. Invoking the Akelarre diverts from this norm by employing more recent historiographical paradigms to analyze the contributions of the accused. Through interdisciplinary analyses of both French- and Spanish-Basque records, it argues that suspects were not passive recipients of elite demonological stereotypes but animated these received templates with their own belief and experience, from the dark exoticism of magical conjuration, liturgical cursing and theatrical misrule to the sharp pragmatism of domestic medical practice and everyday religious observance. In highlighting the range of raw materials available to the suspects, the book helps us to understand how the fiction of the witches sabbath emerged to such prominence in contemporary mentalities, whilst also restoring some agency to the defendants and nuancing the historical thesis that stereotypical content points to interrogatorial opinion and folkloric content to the voices of the accused. In its local context, this study provides an intimate portrait of peasant communities as they flourished in the Basque region in this period and leaves us with the irony that Europes most sensationally-demonological accounts of the witches sabbath may have evolved out of a particularly ardent commitment, on the part of ordinary Basques, to the social and devotional structures of popular Catholicism.

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
1845199995
ISBN-13
9781845199999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050400196

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Book Title
Invoking the Akelarre : Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-Craze, 16091614
Author
Not Available
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / France, Europe / Spain & Portugal, General, Magick Studies
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Psychology, Body, Mind & Spirit, History
Number of Pages
480 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.7in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
29.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Bf1584.S7w55 2020
Table of Content
Contents Acknowledgments The Illustrations Introduction Chapter One The Basque World Chapter Two The Gleeful executioners Chapter Three The Witch's Voice Chapter Four The Black Winds Chapter Five The Bloodletting Bruja Chapter Six 'Powders and Poisons' Chapter Seven 'Man's Grease' Chapter Eight Hidden Healers Chapter Nine Familiar Demons Chapter Ten Milking the Toad Chapter Eleven Jeannette's Imagination Chapter Twelve The Akelarre Chapter Thirteen Dancing with the Devil Chapter Fourteen Dark Banquets Chapter Fifteen 'There is no sin in it' Chapter Sixteen 'Be nothing to God' Chapter Seventeen Theophilus and the Stage Chapter Eighteen The First Altar of Hell Chapter Nineteen Mass and Misrule Chapter Twenty The Malevolent Mass Chapter Twenty One De Lancre's Imagination Chapter Twenty Two The Cultic Template Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Dewey Decimal
133.4309466
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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