Dr Michael Ostling (Teaching Professor and Teaching Honors Fellow

Broschiertes 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 received his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto. Widely published on the topics of witchcraft, magic, other-than-human persons, and ethnobototany, he is co-editor of the internationally recognized journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft and editor of the online Database of Witch Trials in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1500-1800 (forthcoming). Ostling teaches interdisciplinary humanities in the Honors College at Arizona State University, where he attempts to practice a radical pedagogical approach inspired by Polish statesman and philosopher Jacek Kurö.

Produktdetails

• The Past and Present Book Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780198867111
• ISBN-10: 0198867115
• Artikelnr.: 68505602