The Pursuit of Reality
Recent Research Into the History of Witchcraft
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm Gaskill (University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1069-1088 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x0800719x |
| OpenAlex | W2093927109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 9 |
In recent years the outpouring of historical work on witchcraft has been prodigious. Twenty-first-century studies encompass every conceivable chronological and geographical area, from antiquity to the present, Massachusetts to Muscovy. Approaches have been varied, with witchcraft explored as an intellectual, legal, political, social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon. Of particular interest – and difficulty – is the ‘reality’ of witchcraft: how historians might recover contemporary meanings, beyond the meanings imposed by rationalists, romantics, and social scientists. This article examines nine books from the last five years to assess the state of the field, and to offer some suggestions for research in the future
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural phenomenon · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
The Rise of the English Poltergeist, c .1590– c. 1720
Doubt and the dislocation of magic
Słowo wstępne
Building, Burning, and Rebuilding Bridges Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Witchcraft in Tanzania and Beyond
The Freedman's Story
Which Craft
Making lives grievable
They seem to have all died out’
Algorithmic Alchemy
Angels or Demons? Interactions and Borrowings between Folk Traditions, Religion and Demonology in Early Modern Italian Witchcraft Trials
Enemies of God Revisited
Witchcraft and the Limits of Interpretation
The Historiography of European Witchcraft
Present-Centred History and the Problem of Historical Knowledge
Masculinity and Male Witches in Old and New England, 1593-1680
Re-contextualizing British Witchcraft
Witchcraft, Politics and "Good Neighbourhood" in Early Seventeenth-Century Rye
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |