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This Is A Major, Groundbreaking Study By A Leading Scholar In The Field Of Continental Witchcraft Studies. Based On An Intensive Search Through Central And Local Legal Records For South-eastern Germany, An Area Extending Well Beyond But Including Present-day Bavaria, The Author Has Compiled A Thorough Overview Of All Known Prosecutions For Witchcraft In The Period 1300-1800. He Shows Conclusively That Witch-hunting Was Not A Constant Or Uniform Phenomenon, And That Three-quarters Of All Known Executions For Witchcraft Were Concentrated In The Years 1586-1630, Years Of Particular Dearth And Famine. The Book Investigates The Social And Political Implications Of Witchcraft, And How The Mechanisms Of Persecution Served As A Rallying Cry For Partisan Factionalism At Court. The Author Also Explores The Mentalities Behind Witch-hunting, Emphasizing The Complex Religious Debates Between Believers And Sceptics, And Catholics And Protestants. 1. Introduction. Witch Trials In Historiographic Context. Investigating Witch Trials And Learned Discourse In Southeastern Germany. Methodology -- 2. Moving Toward A Social History Of Witchcraft. Quantification In Synchronic And Diachronic Juxtaposition

Author

Wolfgang Behringer

Publisher

Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521482585

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, History