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• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 24,8 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 : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 12 March 1998

An up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft.

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 20 November 2014

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 09 March 2016

While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an 'enchanted' or 'magical' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently explored. Witchcraft, demonology, and debates over pious practices have

• Publisher : Manchester University Press
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 May 2003

This book critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. It shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in

• Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
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• Release Date : 03 June 1987

This 2nd edition takes account of the large volume of literature on the history of witchcraft that has appeared during the past decade. Includes new material on various aspects of

• Publisher : A&C Black
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• Release Date : 01 January 2002

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 28 March 2013

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 03 June 1990

The history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, but until now studies have been largely from the Anglo-Saxon perspective. This book shows how

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 09 May 2007

This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws