Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)

"Men and masculinities are still inadequately incorporated into the historiography of early modern witch trials, despite the fact that 20-25% of all accused 'witches' were male. This book redresses this imbalance by making men the focus of the gender analysis and also covers the issue of regional variation in the gendering of witch persecution"--Provided by publisher. Machine generated contents note: List of Figures and Tables * Preface * Series Forward * Contributors * Not the 'Usual Suspects'? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe; A.Rowlands * Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine; R.Briggs * Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire; R.Schulte* Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (16th-17th Centuries); R.Voltmer * Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichsta;tt; J.Durrant * Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly? O.Di Simplicio * Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland; J.Goodare* Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England; M.Gaskill * The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period; W.de Ble;court * Possession and the Sexes; S.Ferber * Index List of Figures and Tables * Preface * Series Forward * Contributors * Not the 'Usual Suspects'? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe; A.Rowlands * Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine; R.Briggs * Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire; R.Schulte* Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (16th-17th Centuries); R.Voltmer * Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichsta;tt; J.Durrant * Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly? O.Di Simplicio * Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland; J.Goodare* Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England; M.Gaskill * The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period; W.de Ble;court * Possession and the Sexes; S.Ferber * Index . Contents......Page 6 List of Figures and Tables......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Series Foreword......Page 11 Notes on the Contributors......Page 12 1 Not ‘the Usual Suspects’? Male Witches, Witchcraft, and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe......Page 16 2 Male Witches in the Duchy of Lorraine......Page 46 3 Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire......Page 67 4 Witch-Finders, Witch-Hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The Prominent Role of Men in the Mass Persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)......Page 89 5 Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstätt......Page 115 6 Giandomenico Fei, the Only Male Witch. A Tuscan or an Italian Anomaly?......Page 136 7 Men and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland......Page 164 8 Masculinity and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England......Page 186 9 The Werewolf, the Witch, and the Warlock: Aspects of Gender in the Early Modern Period......Page 206 10 Possession and the Sexes......Page 229 B......Page 254 C......Page 256 D......Page 257 E......Page 258 F......Page 259 G......Page 260 H......Page 261 K......Page 262 M......Page 263 N......Page 265 P......Page 266 S......Page 267 T......Page 269 W......Page 270 Z......Page 272 Not 'the usual suspects'? Male witches, witchcraft, and masculinities in early modern Europe / Alison Rowlands Male witches in the Duchy of Lorraine / Robin Briggs Men as accused witches in the Holy Roman Empire / Rolf Schulte Witch-finders, witch-hunters or Kings of the Sabbath? The prominent role of men in the mass persecutions of the Rhine-Meuse Area (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Rita Voltmer Why some men and not others? The male witches of Eichstätt / Jonathan Durrant Giandomenico Fei, the only male witch. A Tuscan or an Italian anomaly? / Oscar Di Simplicio Men and the witch-hunt in Scotland / Julian Goodare Masculinity and witchcraft in seventeenth-century England / Malcolm Gaskill The werewolf, the witch, and the warlock: aspects of gender in the early modern period / Willem de Blécourt Possession and the sexes / Sarah Ferber.

Men and masculinities are still inadequately incorporated into the historiography of early modern witch trials, despite the fact that 20-25% of all accused ‘witches’ were male. This book redresses this imbalance by making men the focus of the gender analysis and also covers the issue of regional variation in the gendering of witch persecution.

Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.