Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe
by Geoffrey Scarre
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In their study of witchcraft and magic in 16th and 17th-century Europe, Geoffrey Scarre and John Callow provide an examination of the theoretical and intellectual rationales which made prosecution for the crime acceptable to the continent's judiciaries. Crucial to their approach is the conflict between supposedly "rational" and "irrational" systems of belief. Through the use of scholarship in the fields of anthropology, gender and historical studies, they present a vision of witch belief as show more central rather than, as was once thought, peripheral to intellectual and theological debate in early modern Europe. show lessTags
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Geoffrey Scarre is Reader and Head of Department of Philsophy, University of Durham, UK.
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- Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History, General Nonfiction
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- 133.43094 — Philosophy & psychology Parapsychology & occultism Specific topics in parapsychology and occultism Demonology and witchcraft Magic and witchcraft Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Europe
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- BF1584 .E9 .S23 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Occult sciences Witchcraft
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