Witch Hunters

Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch-finders of the Renaissance

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Av P G Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

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The history of a unique reign of terror. A thoroughly readable book on the lives and careers of possibly the most sadistic group of people of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'great age' of witch-hunting in Europe and North America.From the doyen of witch-hunters, the Jesuit del Rio, to the British Matthew Hopkins, not to mention Pierre de Lancre, a judge who was responsible for burning 600 women, Maxwell-Stuart charts the progress of these fierce and dangerous zealots, while providing an insight into the world they perceived as evil and which they sought to destroy.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-10-01
Mått124 x 198 x 10 mm
Vikt260 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagThe History Press Ltd
ISBN9780752434339

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P. G. Maxwell-Stuart is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St. Andrews and is an acknowledged expert on the occult. His other books include Witchcraft: A History (Tempus 2004), Wizards: A History (Tempus 2004), The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History, and Satan's Conspiracy: Magic & Witchcraft in Sixteenth Century Scotland. He is currently writing An Abundance of Witches: The Great Scottish Witch-Hunt 1658-1662, also for Tempus. He lives in St. Andrews.