Edward Bever
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1066865 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edward Bever |
| NOMBRES | Edward |
| APELLIDO | Bever |
| FIRMA | BEVER E |
| AFILIACIONES | SUNY Old Westbury |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Culture Warrior
In this note, the author of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe responds to Michael Ostling's critique of the book in his review essay “Secondary Elaborations: Realities and the Rationalization of Witchcraft” (Preternature 4, no. 2 [2015]: 203–10). Since Ostling presents the problems he sees with the book as consequences of motives he attributes to the author, this note first assesses these attributions, then anal…
Witches of the North
Liv Helene Willumsen. Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 170. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xiv + 394 pp. $189. ISBN: 978-90-04-25291-2. - Volume 67 Issue 4
Mauselmacher oder die Imagination des Bosen
Journal Article Mäuselmacher oder die Imagination des Bösen: Ein Hexenprozess 1715–1723 Get access Mäuselmacher oder die Imagination des Bösen: Ein Hexenprozess 1715–1723. By Rainer Beck. Munich: C.H. Beck. 2012. 1008 pp. €49.95 (hardback). Edward Bever Edward Bever SUNY College at Old Westbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 248–250, https://doi.org/10.…
Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic
Witchcraft prosecutions in Europe rose dramatically during the late sixteenth century, peaked in the middle third of the seventeenth century, and declined rapidly thereafter, gradually ceasing altogether by the end of the eighteenth century. The rise was driven by the dissemination of the late-medieval demonology and the "scissors effect" of rising population and constricting resources; the peak reflected the governing elite's "crisis of confiden…
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements
Magic and Society
In this chapter we will examine the ways in which the systematic campaign of repression that the trials for witchcraft and beneficent magic alike were part of affected the place of magic in early modern society and culture. We will start by looking more directly than heretofore at the social position of practitioners of beneficent magic, then consider the range of repressive mechanisms that were in place in early modern society and conclude by ex…
Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community
While a strong consensus has emerged in the last generation about many sociocultural aspects of witchcraft, the role of gender--why witchcraft was particularly but not exclusively associated with women--has remained problematic. This article asserts that women in early modern Europe were thought more likely to be witches because, the evidence suggests, they were in fact more likely to act like witches. Hostility and violence figured prominently i…
Witchcraft Fears and Psychosocial Factors in Disease
Historians, anthropologists, and psychologists have tended to discount the role of "psychosomatic" disease in witchcraft beliefs because they have misunderstood, and therefore underestimated, the connection between interpersonal relations, psychological well-being, and physical health. Current medical knowledge about the relationship between psychological distress, the physiological stress reaction, and somatic disorders, however, gives grounds f…
Gerontologie und Sozialgeschichte
Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic
Witchcraft prosecutions in Europe rose dramatically during the late sixteenth century, peaked in the middle third of the seventeenth century, and declined rapidly thereafter, gradually ceasing altogether by the end of the eighteenth century. The rise was driven by the dissemination of the late-medieval demonology and the "scissors effect" of rising population and constricting resources; the peak reflected the governing elite's "crisis of confiden…
Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community
While a strong consensus has emerged in the last generation about many sociocultural aspects of witchcraft, the role of gender--why witchcraft was particularly but not exclusively associated with women--has remained problematic. This article asserts that women in early modern Europe were thought more likely to be witches because, the evidence suggests, they were in fact more likely to act like witches. Hostility and violence figured prominently i…
Witchcraft Fears and Psychosocial Factors in Disease
Historians, anthropologists, and psychologists have tended to discount the role of "psychosomatic" disease in witchcraft beliefs because they have misunderstood, and therefore underestimated, the connection between interpersonal relations, psychological well-being, and physical health. Current medical knowledge about the relationship between psychological distress, the physiological stress reaction, and somatic disorders, however, gives grounds f…
Gerontologie und Sozialgeschichte
Witchcraft Fears and Psychosocial Factors in Disease
Historians, anthropologists, and psychologists have tended to discount the role of "psychosomatic" disease in witchcraft beliefs because they have misunderstood, and therefore underestimated, the connection between interpersonal relations, psychological well-being, and physical health. Current medical knowledge about the relationship between psychological distress, the physiological stress reaction, and somatic disorders, however, gives grounds f…
Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community
While a strong consensus has emerged in the last generation about many sociocultural aspects of witchcraft, the role of gender--why witchcraft was particularly but not exclusively associated with women--has remained problematic. This article asserts that women in early modern Europe were thought more likely to be witches because, the evidence suggests, they were in fact more likely to act like witches. Hostility and violence figured prominently i…
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements
Magic and Society
In this chapter we will examine the ways in which the systematic campaign of repression that the trials for witchcraft and beneficent magic alike were part of affected the place of magic in early modern society and culture. We will start by looking more directly than heretofore at the social position of practitioners of beneficent magic, then consider the range of repressive mechanisms that were in place in early modern society and conclude by ex…
Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic
Witchcraft prosecutions in Europe rose dramatically during the late sixteenth century, peaked in the middle third of the seventeenth century, and declined rapidly thereafter, gradually ceasing altogether by the end of the eighteenth century. The rise was driven by the dissemination of the late-medieval demonology and the "scissors effect" of rising population and constricting resources; the peak reflected the governing elite's "crisis of confiden…
Mauselmacher oder die Imagination des Bosen
Journal Article Mäuselmacher oder die Imagination des Bösen: Ein Hexenprozess 1715–1723 Get access Mäuselmacher oder die Imagination des Bösen: Ein Hexenprozess 1715–1723. By Rainer Beck. Munich: C.H. Beck. 2012. 1008 pp. €49.95 (hardback). Edward Bever Edward Bever SUNY College at Old Westbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 248–250, https://doi.org/10.…
Witches of the North
Liv Helene Willumsen. Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 170. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xiv + 394 pp. $189. ISBN: 978-90-04-25291-2. - Volume 67 Issue 4
Culture Warrior
In this note, the author of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe responds to Michael Ostling's critique of the book in his review essay “Secondary Elaborations: Realities and the Rationalization of Witchcraft” (Preternature 4, no. 2 [2015]: 203–10). Since Ostling presents the problems he sees with the book as consequences of motives he attributes to the author, this note first assesses these attributions, then anal…
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