Jane P Davidson

Dados Biográficos

ID3950203
NOMEJane P Davidson
PRENOMESJane P
SOBRENOMEDavidson
ASSINATURADAVIDSON J P
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Nevada, Reno
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS33
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR33
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1989
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • FutureGen – Lessons from a Small Country

    Open AccessJane Davidson, Jane P DavidsonARTICLERevue française de civilisation…2023

    In 2015 the government in Wales passed into law the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act. This act is the first legislation in the world to enshrine the rights of future generations alongside current ones and requires Welsh Government ministers and the organisations they oversee to embed this commitment into everything they do. The creation of the Act was a brave and wonderful act by the Welsh Government and a vote of confidence by the We…

  • Stones and Spirits

    Jane P Davidson, Christopher J DuffinARTICLEFolklore2012Referências: 1

    Stone-throwing by demons and witches and the mischievous activities of kobolds in mines are reviewed as part of an investigation into the darker folklore history of geology. Lithobolia has a pedigree extending from classical times, but sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century reports are particularly common. The existence of kobolds, who tormented miners by episodes of stone-throwing and mineral-switching, was accepted by clergy, laity and scien…

  • The Professor of Secrets

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2011

  • The Day I Dropped the "Compendium Maleficarum"

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2009

  • The Legacy of the Mastodon

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2009

    Journal Article The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America Get access The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America. By Thomson Keith. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xvii + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, index. $35.00.) Jane P. Davidson Jane P. Davidson University of Nevada, Reno Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Q…

  • Malleus Maleficarum

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

  • On the Inconstancy of Witches

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

  • Witchfinders

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2007

  • Exorcism and Enlightenment

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2006

  • Witch Craze

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2006

  • Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2006

  • The "Malleus Maleficarum" and the Construction of Witchcraft

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2005

    I would like to thank especially Robert Stacey

  • The Body of the Artisan

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2005

  • Male Witches in Early Modern Europe

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2004

    Invisible men: the historian and the male witch 25 2 Secondary targets?Male witches on trial 43 3 Tortured confessions: agency and selfhood at stake 65 4 Literally unthinkable?Demonological descriptions of male witches 95 5 Conceptual webs: the gendering of witchcraft Conclusion and

  • Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2004

  • Battling Demons

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2004

    The Life of Johannes Nider 2. Witchcraft in the Writings of Johannes Nider 3. The Threat of Heresy: Hussites, Free Spirits, and Beguines 4. Reform of the Orders, Reform of the Religious Spirit 5. The Reform of the Christian World: Johannes Nider's Formicarius 6. Witchcraft and Reform Conclusion: Witchcraft and the World of the Late Middle Ages Appendix One: Chronology of Nider's Life and Datable Works Appendix Two: Dating of Nider's Major Works U…

  • Cautio Criminalis, or, a Book on Witch Trials

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2004

    In 1631, at the epicentre of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women accused of witchcraft in Germany, had witnessed firsthand the twisted logic and brutal torture used by judges and inquisitors. Combined, these harsh prosecutor…

  • Martin del Rio

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2002

  • Satan's Conspiracy

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2002

  • Languages of Witchcraft

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2002

  • Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2002

    This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was involved as alleged victim, interrogator, judge and demonologist. It provides hitherto unpublished and inaccessible material from the legal documentation of the trials in a way that makes the material fu…

  • Natural Particulars

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2001

  • Reading Witchcraft

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2000

    Is it appropriate that a study of witchcraft should be written backwards?Marion Gibson's analysis of the surviving Elizabethan and Jacobean witchcraft pamphlets consists of five chapters.The final one deals with the mix of poetry, godly exhortation, and scholarly disquisition that preface these pamphlets.It is preceded by a discussion of the differences in the crafting and presentation of the stories that they tell.These two If there is additiona…

  • Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2000

    The essays in this collection reveal a variety of discursive practices of the marvelous and establish the variety of uses to which the marvelous could be summoned

  • Witches and Neighbors

    Jane P DavidsonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1997

    Maps. Preface. Introduction. 1. Myths of the Perfect Witch. 2. The Experience of Bewitchment. 3. Supernatural Power and Magical Remedies. 4. The Projection of Evil. 5. Witch-Finders and Witch Cures. 6. Love and Hatred Spouses and Kin. 7. Men against Women: The Gendering of Witchcraft. 8. The Age of Iron. 9. The Web of Power. 10. Internal and External Worlds. Conclusion. Notes. Further Reading. Index