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Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve?
In the village of Heiligenstein, near Barr, the town cooper was startled early one morning to find the local carpenter unconscious in his garret. The cooper suspected that the carpenter had broken in to rob him, and his fears were not ...
From early sorcery trials of the 14th century—associated primarily with French and Papal courts—to the witch executions of the late 18th century, this book's entries cover witch-hunting in individual countries, major witch trials from ...
This book will make essential reading for all those interested in the history and anthropology of witchcraft and magic. In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present.
For witches are not just haunting figures of the past; the witch is also a liberatory icon and identity of the present. In this paperback edition, the author has included a new afterword and updated the travel resources section.
As the centuries since have shown escalating levels both of violence, general and sexual, and of state control, the witchcraze can be considered a portent, even a model, of some aspects of what modern Europe would be like.
J. R. Brink et al. Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies 12, pp. 61–94. Cowan, Edward. 'The darker vision of the Scottish Renaissance', in The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland, ed. I. B. Cowan and D. Shaw. Edinburgh, 1983, pp.
See the dedication of his book to the judges at the Taunton Azzises in 1626, Bernard, 3–4; Notestein, 234–236; Davies, 136–137; T. Wright, Narratives of Sorcery and Magic (New York: Redfield, 1852), 298–300; and Ewen, Witchcraft and ...
Sifting through the facts, myths, and half-truths surrounding the 1692 witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, a historian draws on primary sources to explore the events of that time.
Witch Hunt examines the real facts of this persecution and the religious hysteria that inspired it, tracing it back to its source.