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Feeling with Demons: An Emotional History of Witchcraft in the English Atlantic c. 1560–1730 book cover

1st Edition

Feeling with Demons An Emotional History of Witchcraft in the English Atlantic c. 1560–1730

By Agustín Méndez Copyright 2027
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

Feeling with Demons offers a renewed approach to early modern witchcraft through the lens of the history of emotions. It examines the intellectual, judicial, and emotional frameworks that shaped witch-hunting in Old and New England, as well as the personal and communal tensions that fuelled accusations, their connections to demonic possession, and the arguments advanced by those who challenged... Read more

Acknowledgements                                                 

 

Note to the Reader                                                  

 

Introduction                                                            

 

1. Demonology and Emotionology                       

 

2. An Emotional Crime                                        

 

3. Trials and Confessions                                    

 

4. Possessions                                                       

 

5. Voices Against                                                 

 

Epilogue                                                                

 

Bibliography                                                         

 

Index

Biography

Agustín Méndez is is a professor and holds a PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires. His research focuses on the intellectual foundations of witch-hunting and the emotional dimensions of witchcraft in the early modern English Atlantic. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and is the author of El Infierno está vacío: Demonología, caza de brujas y reforma en la Inglaterra temprano-moderna (s. XVI y XVII) (2020). He is currently a Research Fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and a member of the teaching staff in the Department of Humanities at the National University of La Matanza.

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