Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 260 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781137526342
Series Statement:
Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
Content:
Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover ; Title ; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology; 2 Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-Men in the Graeco-Roman World; 3 Into the Wild - Old Norse Stories of Animal Men; 4 Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape-Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe; Interlude: Wolf-Riding; 5 'What about Some Good Wether?' Witches and Werewolves in Sixteenth-Century Italy; 6 'Species', 'Phantasia', 'Raison': Werewolves and Shape-Shifters in Demonological Literature
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7 The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphosis in the Peripheries of Western Europe8 The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany; Interlude: The Shepherd of Wolves; 9 Estonian Werewolf History; 10 The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137526335
Additional Edition:
Print version Werewolf Histories
Language:
English
Keywords:
Werwolf
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Author information:
Blécourt, Willem de 1951-
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