Between the devil and the host : imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland /
In this fully revised edition of Between the Devil and the Host based on an expanded database of trials, Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, ordinary women who got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes. Through...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2024].
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Past & present book series.
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| Summary: | In this fully revised edition of Between the Devil and the Host based on an expanded database of trials, Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, ordinary women who got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes. Through the dark glass of witchcraft, Ostling also explores the religious lives of early modern women and men: their gender attitudes, their Christian faith and folk cosmology, their prayers and spells, their relations with house demons and the ghosts of unbaptized babies and their adoration of Christ incarnate in the transubstantiated Eucharist. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references (pages [265]-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198867111 0198867115 |