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Servants of Satan : the age of the witch hunts /

This is the first book to consider the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since H.R. Trevor-Roper's classic and pioneering study appeared some fifteen years ago. Drawing upon the advances in historical and social-science schola...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Klaits, Joseph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1985.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The witchcraft enigma
  • Medieval witches
  • Sexual politics and religious reform in the witch craze
  • Classic witches: the beggar and the midwife
  • Classic accusers: the possessed
  • In the torture chamber: legal reform and psychological breakdown
  • An end to witch hunting.