Emotions in the History of Witchcraft

1. Introduction: ‘Unbridled Passion’ and the History of Witchcraft
Michael Ostling, Laura Kounine

Part I. In Representation

2. Fear and Devotion in the Writings of Heinrich Institoris
Tamar Herzig

3. The Cruelty of Witchcraft: The Drawings of Jacques de Gheyn the Younger
Charles Zika

4. Satanic Fury: Depictions of the Devil’s Rage in Nicolas Remy’s Daemonolatria

Laura Kounine

5. Tyrannical Beasts: Male Witchcraft in Early Modern English Culture
E. J. Kent

Part II. On Trial

6. The Witch in the Courtroom: Torture and the Representations of Emotion
Rita Voltmer

7. ‘So They Will Love Me and Pine for Me’: Intimacy and Distance in Early Modern Russian Magic
Valerie A. Kivelson

8. Emotion and Affect in Lorraine Witchcraft Trials
Robin Briggs

9. Speaking of Love in the Polish Witch Trials
Michael Ostling

10. Over-Familiar Spirits: The Bonds between English Witches and Their Devils
Charlotte-Rose Millar

Part III. In the Mind

11. Bullying, the Neurobiology of Emotional Aggression, and the Experience of Witchcraft
Edward Bever

12. Witchcraft and the Dangers of Intimacy: Africa and Europe
Peter Geschiere

13. Psychotic Reactions? Witchcraft, the Devil and Mental Illness
Sarah Ferber

Part IV. In History

14.
In Memorium Maleficarum: Feminist and Pagan Mobilizations of the Burning Times
Laurel Zwissler

15. Afterword: Passions in Perspective
Malcolm Gaskill

Keywords: History, Cultural History, Emotion, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Psychology, Social History