Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4: The Period of the Witch Trials

Bengt Ankarloo is Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Stuart Clark is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.

• Witch Trials in Continental Europe, 1560-1660 -William Monter The Great Persecutions in Northern Europe, 1450-1700 -Bengt Ankarloo Witchcraft in Early Modern Culture -Stuart Clark

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