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• Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
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• Release Date : 15 July 2017

An examination of the origins of belief in witchcraft and the extraordinary witch-hunts in Western Europe during the early modern period

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 20 May 2024

The fourth and most acclaimed of Desjardins' novels creates a sensual and exotic world combining history, magic, and the bizarre.

• Publisher : Manchester University Press
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

What was witchcraft? Were witches real? How should witches be identified? How should they be judged? Towards the end of the middle ages these were new questions, without answers hallowed

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 52,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 August 2003

On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 11 June 2008

Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship,

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 2012

Originally published in 1965, Contraception received unanimous acclaim from all quarters as the first thorough, scholarly, objective analysis of Catholic doctrine on birth control. More than ever this subject is of

• Publisher : Liverpool University Press
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 04 June 2010

The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Using historical, psychological, comparative religious and anthropological perspectives, this book sets out to separate

• Publisher : Scarecrow Press
• File Size : 49,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 October 2012

The second edition of Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft covers the history of the Witchcraft from 1750 B.C.E. though the modern day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory

• Publisher : Random House
• File Size : 46,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 November 2011

In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 44,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2008

It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy