Czarownice. Kategorie wyobrażone
Witches. Imagined Categories

Summary/Abstract: This article is an in-depth review of Michael Ostling’s book Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland. It situates the Polish translation, published thirteen years after the original edition, within its scientific, social, artistic, and political contexts. Ostling’s monograph is analyzed alongside other significant studies on witches, highlighting its contributions to the scholarly analysis of imagined categories, historical interpretation, feminist discourse, and the performativity and theatricality of witch trials.

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