The European Witch-Hunt

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   The European Witch-Hunt - Julian (University of Edinburgh,

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<em>The European Witch-Hunt</em> seeks to understand and explain the phenomenon that saw thousands of people across the continent deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality, and the motivations behind those that persecuted them.Julian Goodare presents the witch-hunt in the broader context of European history across four centuries which saw cultural, religious and intellectual turbulence and included the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. This book looks at witches and witchcraft through the lens of the society in which they existed to demonstrate the system of thought and belief that made the crime of witchcraft possible, and the legal and political structures that upheld those fears. Chapters are divided thematically to show perceptions of witchcraft held by intellectuals and peasants, in the courts and in churches, drawing together the wealth of documentary evidence surrounding the witch-hunt, from trial records and confessions to demonological treatises by contemporary academics. This is the ideal introduction for students exploring the history of witchcraft and the persecution of suspected witches for the first time.