The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe Zika Charles
Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award.For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles…
Specifikacia The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe Zika Charles
Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award.For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika's groundbreaking study investigates how the visual image of the witch was created in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. He charts the development of the witch as a new visual subject, showing how the traditional imagery of magic and sorcery of medieval Europe was transformed into the sensationalist depictions of witches in the pamphlets and prints of the sixteenth century.This book shows how artists and printers across the period developed key visual codes for witchcraft, such as the cauldron and the riding of animals. It demonstrates how influential these were in creating a new iconography for representing witchcraft, incorporating