Michael Ostling

Gebundenes Buch

Between the Devil and the Host

Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Michael Ostling grew up in northern California. He fell in love with Poland while teaching English in that country during a break from university. He did his graduate work at the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, and currently teaches witchcraft, Christianity, mythology and related subjects at Central Michigan University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780199587902
• ISBN-10: 0199587906
• Artikelnr.: 34552691