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Author Ostling, Michael.

Title Between the devil and the host : imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland / Michael Ostling
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) : illustrations
Series The past & present book series
Past & present book series.
Contents Introduction : at the crossroads -- I. History. Contexts ; Imagining witchcraft in literature and law ; A winding road to the stake ; Mechanisms of justice -- II. Religion. Healing and harming ; Stealing the sacred ; Broken bodies ; Piety in the torture chamber -- III. Demonology. A candle for the devil ; Demon lovers ; Translating the devil -- Conclusions -- Appendix : Polish witch-trials 1511-1775
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-274) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Witch hunting -- Poland -- History
Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Catholics -- Religious identity -- Poland -- History
Catholics -- Religious identity
Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Witch hunting
Häxprocesser -- historia -- Polen.
Occultism -- Romersk-katolska kyrkan.
Poland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191731228
0191731226