User:HelloEffy/Witch trials in Portugal/Bibliography

Citation:

Walker, Timothy. Doctors, folk medicine and the Inquisition: the repression of magical healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment, Vol. 23. Brill, 2005.

Summary: Walker combines medical history with history from the inquisition to show how intellectuals at the time manipulated the repressive nature of the Inquisition to eliminate their competition (magical healers).

Why is it authoritative: It is an academic secondary source and published textbook.

How I used it: I used it to gather information that was lacking from the article including the timeframe and peak of trials, and information of Portuguese folk magic.

Citation:

Levack, Brian P. The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed. Longman Press, 1995, pp. 138–139.

Summary: A concise survey exploring the geographical distribution of witch trials across Early Modern Europe

Why it is authoritative: It is published by Routledge, a respected publisher, and is used by students and teachers in higher education.

How I used it: This text had a lot of information on Portuguese folk healers and the magical remedies of the Portuguese peasants of the time.

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Levack, Brian P. “The Decline and End of Witchcraft Prosecutions.” Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Athlone, 1999, p. 78.

Summary: This text covers the decriminalization of witchcraft in Europe and the social role witchcraft had on communities at the end of the 19th century.

Why it is authoritative: It is an academic secondary source and published textbook.

How I used it: I was able to determine when the last execution by the Holy Office was, which helped narrow down the timeline.

Citation:

Monter, E. W. "Witchcraft in Iberia." The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary: Essays that study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas and relate these prosecutions to medical and scientific thought, social and economic change, and early modern patterns of gender relations.

Why it is authoritative: It is published by Oxford and used in universities.

How I used it: I gathered gender-related information on the subject including urban witches and minor spells.