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Autor(en) / Beteiligte
Titel
Werewolf Histories
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
London: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • 01 02 Today, werewolves are primarily known through films: as humans who change into wolves under the influence of the full moon. Although this is a recent image, werewolves have a long, fragmented and discontinuous history. Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. On the basis of mostly new source material, varying from archaeological finds, demonological tracts, witchcraft trials, slander suits and nineteenth - and twentieth - century legends, its contributors cover the most important European werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia. Werewolf Histories calls for a more sophisticated, contextualised, and differentiated approach and hopes to be contagious enough to spawn more of its kind. 08 02 'The volume's aims, as outlined in de Blécourt's introductory essay, are met by the essays collected, particularly the stated intention to mark a 'transition from popular werewolf publications to academic historical perspectives'. The clear and nuanced historical perspectives presented certainly set the volume apart from the putative 'werewolf history' presented in the popular publications that are commonly cited in studies of contemporary literary and cinematic werewolves.' – Hannah Priest, Swansea University, UK 04 02 1. The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology; Willem de Blécourt 2. Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-men in the Graeco-Roman World; Richard Gordon 3. Into the Wild: Old Norse Stories of Animal Men; Christa Agnes Tuczay 4. Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe; Aleksander Pluskowski Interlude: Wolf-Riding 5. "What About Some Good Wether?" Witches and Werewolves in 16th Century Italy; Matteo Duni 6. "Species", "Phantasia", "Raison": Werewolves and Shape-shifters in Demonological Literature; Johannes Dillinger 7. The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphose in the Peripheries of Western Europe; Rita Voltmer 8. The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany; Rolf Schulte Interlude: The Shepherd of Wolves 9. Estonian Werewolf History; Merili Metsvahi 10. The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Michèle Simonsen 11. Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions; Maja Pasarić 13 02 Willem de Blécourt is a historical anthropologist and an independent scholar, as well as Honorary Research Fellow at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Apart from werewolves, his main areas of interest are the history of witchcraft in Europe from the late Middle Ages up to the twentieth century, and the history of fairy tales during the same period. His most recent publications include Tales of Magic, Tales in Print: On the Genealogy of Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm (2012) and two edited volumes (with Owen Davies) about witchcraft after the witch trials, Beyond the Witch Trials and Witchcraft Continued (2004). 02 02 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.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISBN: 1137526335, 9781137526335, 134958049X, 9781349580491
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-52634-2
Titel-ID: cdi_springer_books_10_1007_978_1_137_52634_2

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