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Loading... Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (Middle Ages Series) (edition 2000)by Alan Charles Kors (Editor), Edward Peters (Editor)
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Spanning the period from 400 to 1700, the second edition of Witchcraft in Europe assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first, many newly translated, along with new illustrations that trace the development of witch-beliefs from late Mediterranean antiquity through the Enlightenment. Trial records, inquisitors' reports, eyewitness statements, and witches' confessions, along with striking contemporary illustrations depicting the career of the Devil and his works, testify to the hundreds of years of terror that enslaved an entire continent. homas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and other thinkers are quoted at length in order to determine the intellectual, perceptual, and legal processes by which "folklore" was transformed into systematic demonology and persecution. Together with explanatory notes, introductory essays -- which have been revised to reflect current research -- and a new bibliography, the documents gathered in No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)133.43094Philosophy and Psychology Parapsychology And Occultism Specific Topics Witchcraft - Sorcery Witchcraft and Magickal Practice Biography; History By Place EuropeLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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