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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.
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Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria, Wolfgang Behringer
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Wolfgang Behringer
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ. Press
- Released
- 1997
- ISBN10
- 0521482585
- ISBN13
- 9780521482585
- Category
- Social sciences
- Description
- 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.