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| Author(s): |
Marcela Delia
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2020-02-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Rui Luis Rodrigues;
Néri de Barros Almeida;
Philippe Delfino Sartin
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| Advisor: | Rui Luis Rodrigues |
| Abstract | |
During the sixteenth-century, Scotland had two moments when witchcraft prosecutions reached more extensive proportions, both geographically and numerically speaking. The episodes happened in 1590-1 and 1597. While the first was broadly studied by historiography, considering its peculiarity because of the personal involvement of the Scottish king, James VI, 1597 did not receive enough attention. In this year, around 34 people were accused thanks to the prosecution records that survived 422 years that separate this research from the narrated events. But, it was there, in Aberdeen, that (mainly) women would have practised rituals that involved orthodox and inversive practices, would have cursed their neighbours in the middle of the street and would have cast spells on Aberdeen¿s local officials¿ kins. Parallel to that, witchcraft studies were developed with different perspectives on the last two centuries. Scholars moves from works that considered the sabbath as a pagan ritual and a worship of nature¿s deities to social, economic, political, gender and linguistic perspectives. Although broad, these studies are not usually put into comparison. Only a microscopic study-object could allow a combination of different methodologies, considering and respecting the complexities of each one of them. Because the primary sources for Aberdeen in 1597 are extremely rich and the temporal and geographic framework is specific, this research proposes to analyse the episode through the combination of a few distinct methodologies. The proposal is a triple study, which takes into consideration linguistic elements characteristic from the early modern period, social aspects from everyday life in Aberdeen and political, in terms of the relationship between local authorities and between these and the central government. With this, we hope to achieve a better understanding of the episode and new conclusions about witchcraft in the early modern period when comparing different forms of looking into the phenomenon (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/26441-4 - Witchcraft in 1597 Aberdeen: an analytic study of its causes, system of beliefs, external factors and characters |
| Grantee: | Marcela Delia |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |