A Story About Witches. On Wanda Wyporska’s Book Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland 1500–1800 Cover Image
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Historia o czarownicach. O książce Wandy Wyporskiej Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland 1500–1800
A Story About Witches. On Wanda Wyporska’s Book Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland 1500–1800

Author(s): Danuta Kowalewska
Subject(s): History, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Czasu Kultury
Keywords: witchcraft;witch;magic;early modern period;woman;misogyny;witchcraft trials;Wielkopolska;

Summary/Abstract: This article is a subjective look at Wanda Wyporska’s book, Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland 1500-1800, the first English-language history of witchcraft written by a woman. The author discusses the content of the publication in the context of contemporary historiography of magic and witchcraft and the recently observed “great return of witches.”

  • Issue Year: XVII/2021
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 133-140
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish
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