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The Witchcraft Reader

The Witchcraft Reader

Oldridge, Darren

Paperback

Series: Routledge Readers in History

General European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138565423
ISBN13: 9781138565425
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 16 2019
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination.

The witch trials of the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have inspired a huge and expanding scholarly literature, as well as an outpouring of popular representations. This fully revised and enlarged third edition brings together many of the best and most important works in the field. It explores the origins of witchcraft prosecutions in learned and popular culture, fears of an imaginary witch cult, the role of religious division and ideas about the Devil, the gendering of suspects, the making of confessions and the decline of witch beliefs. An expanded final section explores the various revivals and images of witchcraft that continue to flourish in contemporary Western culture.

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