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The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America

The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America

Thurston, Robert

Paperback

OccultGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1405840838
ISBN13: 9781405840835
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2006
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.87
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.76
Language: English

Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a 'persecuting society' in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts.

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