| Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe Contributor(s): Behringer, Wolfgang (Author), Grayson, J. C. (Translator), Lederer, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521482585 ISBN-13: 9780521482585 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $147.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 133.430 |
| LCCN: 96043846 |
| Series: Past and Present Publications |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (2.05 lbs) 504 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
