Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria

Autori

• Wolfgang Behringer

Parametri

• 503 pagine
• 18 ore di lettura

• Germania
• Saggistica
• Storia

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1997

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