Edited Book

Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe

The Medieval and Early Modern Construction of Otherness in Literature
  • Edited by:
  • Letizia Vezzosi,

This volume presents the first results of the PRIN 2022 research project involving the universities of Siena, Turin, Naples “L’Orientale” and Florence. It examines how otherness was constructed in non-canonical, vernacular texts addressed to popular audiences in Northwestern Europe from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. The essays explore how theological and demonological ideas were absorbed and reshaped through exempla, street literature, chronicles, and sermons, often featuring magical, wondrous, or witch-like figures. Special attention is given to the gendered portrayal of women and to the interplay between elite and popular discourses in shaping perceptions of marginality

  • Keywords:
  • Demonology,
  • Magic,
  • Otherness,
  • Popular Texts,
  • Witchcraft,
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Letizia Vezzosi

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-7635-2657

Letizia Vezzosi is Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Florence. She is the author of studies on Old and Middle English and Middle Dutch, including the first Italian introduction to Middle Dutch and the recent volume Non solo agiografia: il poema di Saint Erkenwald. She is co-editor of the journal “Medioevo Europeo”.
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Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe

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The Medieval and Early Modern Construction of Otherness in Literature

Editors

Letizia Vezzosi

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2025

Copyright Information

© 2025 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0729-4

eISBN (pdf)

979-12-215-0729-4

eISBN (xml)

979-12-215-0730-0

Series Title

Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna

Series E-ISSN

2420-8361

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