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Male Witches in Early Modern Europe
Lara Apps , and Andrew Gow
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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This book critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. It shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition, and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalization of male witches by feminist and other historians.

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Rush Limbaugh Ventures into Witchcraft Scholarship.......2006-11-03

I've been doing a lot of reading about the history of European witchcraft lately. I've been impressed with the seriousness with which the topic is now being treated. I did not perceive any dearth of attention to male witches in the recent scholarship, but I thought it would be interesting to read more in depth on it and so bought this book.

However, rather than being a history, this book is a rant about contemporary scholarship of the history of witchcraft. The gist of the criticism is that there are way too many people bringing a feminist perspective to the field. Pages and pages are given over to all sorts of "proofs" of this feminazi neglect and yes, PREJUDICE against white men, I mean, the subject of male witches in the scholarship of the history of witchcraft. The actual history of male witches in early modern Europe is an excuse for the real topic of complaint about the state of the field.

Thus, this book breaks faith with the reader. It presents itself as a history book. It is in fact a rant against feminists in academia.

If the authors believe that the alleged neglect of the subject of male witches in the scholarship of the history of witchcraft is a fit topic, then perhaps they should raise it at conferences on the subject. Don't waste our time and money with it, and especially don't try to market your rant by calling it scholarship or history. It isn't.

I was once a professor, and this sort of crying and whining with footnotes is one of the reasons I got out of it. The only thing readers will learn from this book is that there are some people who are willing to waste great gobs of their time - and yours - being affronted.

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