Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Abstract

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Demons and Histories 1. Reuchlin's De Verbo Mirifico and the Magic Debate of the Late Fifteenth Century 2. Reuchlin and Erasmus: Humanism and Occult Philosophy 3. Agrippa of Nettesheim and his Appeal to the Cologne Council in 1533: The Politics of Knowledge in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany 4. Hosts, Processions and Pilgrimages: Controlling the Sacred in Fifteenth-Century Germany 5. The Reformation Jubilee of 1617: Appropriating the Past in European Centenary Celebrations 6. Fears of Flying: Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality in Sixteenth-Century Germany 7. She-man: Visual Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality 8. Durer's Witch, Riding Women and Moral Order 9. The Wild Cavalcade in Lucas Cranach's Melancholia Paintings: Witchcraft and Sexual Disorder in Sixteenth-Century Germany 10. Body Parts, Saturn and Cannibalism: Visual Representations of Witches' Assemblies in the Sixteenth Century 11. Fashioning New Worlds from Old Fathers: Reflections on Saturn, Amerindians and Witches in a Sixteenth-Century Print 12. Cannibalism and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Reading the Visual Images 13. Appropriating Folklore in Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft Literature: The Nebelkappe of Paulus Frisius 14. Writing the Visual into History: Changing Cultural Perceptions of Late Medieval and Reformation Germany 15. Nuremberg: The City and its Culture in the Early Sixteenth Century Index of Names Index of Places Index of Subjects