Witches and witch-hunts : a global history / Wolfgang Behringer.
Witches and witch-hunts : a global history / Wolfgang Behringer.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N133.43/58
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxi, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The belief in witchcraft -- 3. The persecution of witches -- 4. The European age of witch-hunting -- 5. Outlawing witchcraft persecution in Europe -- 6. Witch-hunting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- 7. Old and 'new witches' -- 8. Epilogue.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2004.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2004.
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Summary
"In this new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the history of European witchcraft, while demonstrating that witch-hunts are not simply part of the European past. Although witch-hunts have long since been outlawed...
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Witches and witch-hunts : a global history / Wolfgang Behringer.
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Themes in history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N133.43/58
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74VKqKMyPqey
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ISBN
0745627188 (pbk.) :
074562717X (hb : alk. paper)
9780745627182 (pb : alk. paper)
0745627188 (pb : alk. paper)
074562717X (cased) :
9780745627182 (pbk.) :
DDC
306.4
133.43
133.4309
MMS ID
991020211229702626
