Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700 : a documentary history / edited with an introduction by Alan C. Kors and Edward Peters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kors, Alan Charles.

Peters, Edward, 1936-

Series:

Middle Ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Europe--History--Sources.

Witchcraft.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

viii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1995]

Contents:

Witchcraft in Christendom, 1100-1250

St. Thomas Aquinas and the nature of evil

The Papacy, the Inquisition, and the early witch-finders, 1250-1484

The hammer of witches

The witch-persecutions of the sixteenth century

Witchcraft in the seventeenth century

Scepticism, doubt, and disbelief in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Notes:

Reprint with a new postscript. Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0812210638

OCLC:

32973108