Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria - Wolfgang Behringer - Cambridge, 2022
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Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria
Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry And Reason Of State In Early Modern Europe
di Wolfgang Behringer
Editore: Cambridge University Press
Traduttore: Grayson, J. C. Lederer, David
EAN: 9780521525107
ISBN: 0521525101
Pagine: 504
Formato: Paperback
This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800, and shows conclusively that witch hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon: three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630. The book also investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and the complex religious debates between believers and skeptics.