![]() Readers looking for such an approach will be disappointed with the discussed work and should, for example, consult Lyndal Roper's excellent study Witch Craze, Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (New Haven, Connecticut, 2004) or Wolfgang Behringer's recent work, Witches and Witch-Hunts. It is also not a book on witch hunting and witch persecution based on the study of new, unknown court sources or testimonies of inquisitors and their victims. It does, among other things, consider witch hunting and persecution of witches, but its scope is much broader. ![]() Waite is a recent attempt to shed more light on the religious and intellectual background of various persecutions in the early modern period in western Europe. Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Gary K. The unanswered and unanswerable questions of why, when, and who was accused of conducting suspicious activity, who entered a contract with the Devil, keep returning in the research of scholars of various disciplines. Waite reveals how the early-modern period's religious conflicts led to widespread confusion and uncertainty, against which alleged diabolical conspiracies served to reaffirm orthodoxy. Waite 3.81 27 ratings1 review Bringing together the fields of Reformation and witchcraft studies, Gary K. Witches, witchcraft, and witch-hunting fascinated and continue to fascinate historians of the middle ages and early modern period. Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe Gary K. $90.00 US (cloth), $30.95 US (paper).Īnother book on witchcraft and witch-hunting?! Don't we already have enough of them? Houndmills and Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan 2003, viii, 284 pp. ![]() ![]() Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, by Gary K. ![]()
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