历史人类学研究的经典之作——读《都铎和斯图亚特时期英国的巫术》

1970年英国历史人类学家麦克法伦出版了《都铎和斯图亚特时期英国的巫术》一书,之后立即引起整个社会史和化史学界的广泛兴趣和关注。《泰晤士报》称之为“一部极高水平的作——真正的开创之作”。1999年该书再版时,出版商写道,“这本书的方法和结     

Robert Weston,Medical consulting by letter in France, 1665-1789

This review investigates Robert Weston’'s Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789. Weston uses correspondence between physicians and patients to explore perceptions of health and methods of treatments in early modern France. He also approaches the theme of how authority was expressed and perceived in epistolary communication. This book is important in its exploration of an underutilized source and its contribution to an understanding of how medical relationships were constructed in the past. With a rigorous structure and a high volume of information, Weston’'s work is an invaluable contribution to historical literature on early modern France.     

六种明末清初福建地方抄本文献叙录

明末清初,南明唐王即位福州,建元隆武;清军入闽,以郑成功为主的福建各地抗清斗争此起彼伏;清廷全面厉行海禁与迁界政策,福建沿海居民背井离乡,无处求生;耿精忠在福建叛清,福建再次陷入战乱.     

Thinking with Montaigne: evidence, scepticism and meaning in early modern demonology

In 1612 the Bordeaux witchcraft inquisitor Pierre de Lancre (1556–1631), himself linked by marriage to Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), revealed that the essayist and sceptic was related on his mother’s side to a leading authority on magic and superstition, the Flemish-Spanish Jesuit Martin Delrio (1551–1608). De Lancre confounded historians' expectations by using the revelation to defend Montaigne against his cousin's criticism. This article re-evaluates the relationships of De Lancre, Delrio and Montaigne in the light of recent scholarship, which casts demonology as a form of "resistance to scepticism" that conceals deep anxiety about the existence of the supernatural. It explores De Lancre’s and Delrio’s very different attitudes towards Montaigne and towards evidence and scepticism. This, in turn, reveals the different underlying preoccupations of their witchcraft treatises. It hence argues that no monocausal explanation linking scepticism to witchcraft belief is plausible.