UID:
edocfu_9958059202402883
Format:
1 online resource (220 p.)
ISBN:
1-78170-041-9
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1-280-73440-X
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9786610734405
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1-84779-075-5
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1-4237-0647-1
Series Statement:
Studies in early modern European history
Content:
What was witchcraft? Were witches real? How should witches be identified? How should they be judged? Towards the end of the middle ages these were serious and important questions - and completely new. Between 1430 and 1500, a number of learned 'witch-
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on translation; 1 Introduction: contested categories; 2 Origins and arguments; 3 The inquisitors' devil; 4 Misfortune, witchcraft, and the will of God; 5 Witchcraft: the formation of belief - part one; 6 Witchcraft: the formation of belief - part two; 7 Witchcraft as an expression of female sexuality; Bibliography; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-6441-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-6440-6
Language:
English
