This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800, and shows conclusively that witch hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon: three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630. The book also investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and the complex religious debates between believers and skeptics.
This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800, and shows conclusively that witch hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon: three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630. The book also investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and the complex religious debates between believers and skeptics.
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Moving toward a social history of witchcraft 3. The wave of persecutions around 1590 4. The struggle for restraint, 1600-30 5. Perpetuation through domestication, 1630-1775 6. The final Catholic debate 7. Conclusions 8. Sources and literature.
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Moving toward a social history of witchcraft 3. The wave of persecutions around 1590 4. The struggle for restraint, 1600-30 5. Perpetuation through domestication, 1630-1775 6. The final Catholic debate 7. Conclusions 8. Sources and literature.
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