Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700 : a documentary history
Spanning the period from 400 to 1700, the second edition of Witchcraft in Europe assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first, many newly translated, along with new illustrations that trace the development of witch-beliefs from late Mediterranean antiquity through the Enlightenment. Trial records, inquisitors' reports, eyewitness statements, and witches' confessions, along with striking contemporary illustrations depicting the career of the Devil and his works, testify to the hundreds of years of terror that enslaved an entire continent. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and other thinkers are quoted at length in order to determine the intellectual, perceptual, and legal processes by which "folklore" was transformed into systematic demonology and persecution. Together with explanatory notes, introductory essays ; which have been revised to reflect current research ; and a new bibliography, the documents gathered in
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University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2001
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xiv, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Revised edition of: Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700 / Alan Charles Kors. 1972