Introduction 1. New fears in Europe: 700-1500 2. Toward the Witch Pyres: Images and Realities of European Women to 1500 3. The Spread of the Witch Trials 4. Victims and Processes 5. The Decline and End of the Hunts Conclusion
This highly readable account provides an extensive overview of witch-hunting in Europe and North America.
Robert Thurston is Professor of History at the Universityof Miami.
"comprehensive account of one of the most malign periods in Eureopean history" - Glasgow Herald 'Lively and readable. It is written in a style as personal and attractive as any I have encountered...It has just the right balance of magisterial detachment and personal insight.' Ronald Hutton, Universityof Bristol 6 page feature article on book in History Today, November 2006
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