Laura Kounine is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex, and was previously a research fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe (2016) and author of the forthcoming Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany.

Michael Ostling is Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University, USA, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, [...] is the author of Between the Devil and the Host (2011) and editor of the forthcoming Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits (2017).

1. 'Unbridled Passion': Witchcraft in the History of Emotion by Michael Ostling and Laura Kounine.- Part I: In Representation.- 2. Fear and Devotion in the Writings of Heinrich Institoris by Tamar Herzig.- 3. Satanic Fury: Depictions of the Devil's Rage in Nicolas Remy's Daemonolatria by Laura Kounine.- 4. The Cruelty of Witchcraft: the Drawings of Jacques de Gheyn the Younger by Charles Zika.- 5. Tyrannical Beasts: Male Witchcraft in Early Modern English Culture by E. J. Kent.- Part II.- 6. The Witch in the Courtroom: Torture and the Representations of Emotion by Rita Voltmer.- 7. 'So they will love me and pine for me': Intimacy and Distance in Early Modern Russian Magic by Valerie Kivelson.- 8. Emotion and Affect in Lorraine Witchcraft Trials by Robin Briggs.- 9. Speaking of Love in the Polish Witch-Trials by Michael Ostling.- 10. Over-Familiar Spirits: The Bonds between English Witches and their Devils byCharlotte-Rose Millar.- Part III.- 11. Bullying, the Neurobiology of Emotional Aggression, and the Experience of Witchcraft by Edward Bever.- 12. Witchcraft and the Dangers of Intimacy: Africa and Europe by Peter Geschiere.- 13. Psychotic Reactions? Witchcraft, The Devil and Mental Illness by Sarah Ferber.- Part IV.- 14. In Memorium Maleficarum: Feminist and Pagan Mobilizations of the Burning Times by Laurel Zwissler.- 15. Afterword: Passions in Perspective by Malcolm Gaskill.