Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521482585)

This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300-1800, and shows conclusively that witch hunting was not a constant or uniform phenomenon: three-quarters of all known executions for witchcraft were concentrated in the years 1586-1630. The book also investigates the social and political implications of witchcraft, and the complex religious debates between believers and skeptics.

Author: Wolfgang Behringer
ISBN-10: 0521482585
ISBN-13: 9780521482585
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/1997
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.40d