Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Shamanism and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland - Image 1

£41.74

Liverpool University Press Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Shamanism and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Name: Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Shamanism and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Brand: Liverpool University Press
Price: 41.74 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£42 today · usual range £0–£0 · best ever £26

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 599 days • 599 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 599 days • 6 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £38 (249 days, 41.6%)

Price range: £26 - £43

Price levels: 6 different prices over 599 days

Description

The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power and vivid imagery have attracted considerable interest on both academic and popular levels. Among historians, the confessions are celebrated for providing a unique insight into the way fairy beliefs and witch beliefs interacted in the early modern mind; more controversially, they are also cited as evidence for the existence of Shamanistic visionary traditions, of pre-Christian origin, in Scotland in this period. On a popular level the confessions of Isobel Gowdie have, above any other British witch-trial records, influenced the formation of the ritual traditions of Wicca. The author's discovery of the original trial records (currently being authenticated by the National Archives of Scotland), deemed lost for nearly 200 years, provides a starting point for an interdisciplinary look at the confessions and the woman behind them. Using historical, psychological, comparative religious and anthropological perspectives this book sets out to separate the voice of Isobel Gowdie from that of her interrogators, and to determine the experiences and beliefs which may have generated her confessions. The book explores: How far did those accused of witchcraft self-consciously practice harmful magic? Did they really believe themselves to have made a Pact with an envisioned Devil? Did they ever participate in ecstatic cult rituals? The author argues that close analysis of Isobel's testimony supports the view that in seventeenth-century Britain popular spirituality was shaped by a deep interaction between Christian teachings and shamanistic visionary traditions, of pre-Christian origin. These findings confirm the value of witchcraft confessions as unique windows into the complexities of the early modern religious imagination.

Product Specifications

Brand: Liverpool University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1845191803
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 June 2010
Listed Since: 02 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Liverpool University Press Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Shamanism and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

WICCA AND WITCHCRAFT: 4 Books in 1: Beginner's Guide to Learn the Secrets of Witchcraft with Wiccan Spells, Moon Rituals. Become a Modern Witch Using Meditation, Herbal, Candle, and Crystal Magic

The Routledge History of Witchcraft

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Past and Present Publications)

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Past and Present Publications)

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Witchcraft, Healing and Popular Diseases v.5

Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (Clarendon Paperbacks)

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Witchcraft in The Modern World Vol 6

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Witchcraft in Continental Europe Vol 2

Witchcraft: The Basics

Witchcraft Accusations and Persecutions as a Mechanism for the Marginalisation of Women

Demonology, Religion, and Witchcraft: New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology, Volume 1)

Witchcraft Myths in American Culture

The Witchcraft Reader (Routledge Readers in History)

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology

Auntie Emeleth's Giant Book of Witchiness: The Collected Series

John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft: Text, Context and Afterlife (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)

The Witches Almanac: Sorcerers, Witches and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age

Styrian Witches in European Perspective: Ethnographic Fieldwork (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)

Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)

Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series)

The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617 (Routledge Studies in the History of Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic)

Routledge Witchcraft in Early Modern England - Second Edition

The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition