The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research t

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research t

A compact survey of the European witch craze of the early modern period--a craze that later spilled over to America.

Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading schola

Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manif