brian p levack the witch hunt in early modern europe

This second edition includes an extended section on the witch trials in England, Scotland and New England, fully revised and updated introductions to the sources to include the latest scholarship and a short bibliography at the end of each introduction to guide students in their further reading. Levack shows how notions of witchcraft have changed over time and considers the connection between gender and witchcraft and the nature of the witch's perceived power. Including trial records, demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, narratives of demonic possession, and artistic depiction of witches, the documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities. Catholics and Protestants alike feared that the Devil and his human confederates were destroying Christian society. During these years the prominent stereotype of the witch as an evil magician and servant of Satan emerged.

00,000 people - most of them women - were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and colonial America. Many of the sources come from the period between 14, when more than 1. The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition (Hardback, 2nd edition) The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (Hardback, 4th edition) The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe is now fully intergrated with Brian Levack's The Witchcraft Sourcebook 2ed, both within the text and on a new companion website which draws the two books together, creating an invaluable resource for students of witchcraft and witch trials in the early modern period. It also explores the geographical distribution of prosecutions, making comparisons between different countries and discusses the recent work on regions, cities and kingdoms. This new edition is fully updated to include the latest research in the field, in particular providing expanded coverage on children, male witches, the relationship between shamanism and witchcraft and demonic possession.

Brian Levack considers the many theories, as well as contributing to the scholarly debate.

f individual prosecutions, each shaped by the religious and social dimensions of the particular area, as well as political and legal factors. The witch-hunt was not a single event it comprised thousands o. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, introduces students to the phenomenon that saw thousands of people accused, prosecuted and executed for the crime of witchcraft between 14.

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Brian p levack the witch hunt in early modern europe