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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Language: | Inglés |
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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.