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The Past and Present Book Ser.: Between the Devil and the Host : Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland by Michael Ostling (2012, Hardcover)

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Outside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighbours to be witches, with tragic results. For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes. Through a close reading of accusations and confessions, Ostling also shows how witches imagined themselves and their own religious lives. Paradoxically, the tales they tell of infanticide and host-desecration reveal to us a culture of deep Catholic piety, while the stories they tell of demonic sex and the treasure-bringing ghosts of unbaptized babies uncover a complex folklore at the margins of Christian orthodoxy. Caught between the devil and the host, the self-imagined Polish witches reflect the religion of their place and time, even as they stand accused of subverting and betraying that religion. Through the dark glass of witchcraft Ostling explores the religious lives of early modern women and men: their gender attitudes, their Christian faith and folk cosmology, their prayers and spells, their adoration of Christ incarnate in the transubstantiated Eucharist, and their relations with goblin-like house demons and ghosts.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199587906
ISBN-13
9780199587902
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112172766

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Author
Michael Ostling
Publication Name
Between the Devil and the Host : Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
The Past and Present Book Ser.
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages

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9.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
21 Oz

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Bf1584
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"Michael Ostling's study of witchcraft in early modern Poland explores the murky, productive borerlands between long-established categories of analysis. His work lingers at cultural and geographic crossroads, in the indeterminate zones occupied by the phenomenon of Polish witchcraft itself." --Slavic Review "This is an invaluable addition to the regional studies of witchcraft in early modern Europe, bringing important recent Polish-language research into contact with interpretations and styles of inquiry currently being developed for other parts of Europe." --Journal of Ecclesiastical History, "Michael Ostling's study of witchcraft in early modern Poland explores the murky, productive borerlands between long-established categories of analysis. His work lingers at cultural and geographic crossroads, in the indeterminate zones occupied by the phenomenon of Polish witchcraft itself."--Slavic Review "This is an invaluable addition to the regional studies of witchcraft in early modern Europe, bringing important recent Polish-language research into contact with interpretations and styles of inquiry currently being developed for other parts of Europe."--Journal of Ecclesiastical History, The author's religious-cultural approach to witches counters interpretations that tend to dismiss them as products of fantasy and superstition. An appendix, maps, and a table complement this stimulating book., "Michael Ostling's study of witchcraft in early modern Poland explores the murky, productive borerlands between long-established categories of analysis. His work lingers at cultural and geographic crossroads, in the indeterminate zones occupied by the phenomenon of Polish witchcraft itself."--Slavic Review"This is an invaluable addition to the regional studies of witchcraft in early modern Europe, bringing important recent Polish-language research into contact with interpretations and styles of inquiry currently being developed for other parts of Europe."--Journal of Ecclesiastical History, "This is an invaluable addition to the regional studies of witchcraft in early modern Europe, bringing important recent Polish-language research into contact with interpretations and styles of inquiry currently being developed for other parts of Europe." --Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Michael Ostling offers a fascinating contribution to the interpretation of early modern witch trials and confessions, which prove to be as historically challenging in the Polish context as elsewhere in Europe.
Table of Content
Introduction: At the crossroadsPart I. History1. Contexts2. Imagining witchcraft in literature and law3. A winding road to the stake4. Mechanisms of justicePart II. Religion5. Healing and Harming6. Stealing the sacred7. Broken bodies8. Piety in the torture chamberPart III. Demonology9. A candle for the devil10. Demon lovers11. Translating the DevilConclusionAppendix: Polish witch trials 1511-1775Bibliography
Copyright Date
2011
Topic
Hunting, Europe / Eastern, Christianity / History, Christianity / Catholic, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Europe / General, Occultism
Lccn
2011-942625
Dewey Decimal
133.4309438
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Sports & Recreation, History

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