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WITCHCRAFT PERSECUTIONS IN BAVARIA
POPULAR MAGIC, RELIGIOUS ZEALOTRY AND REASON OF STATE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE |
| By: |
Wolfgang Behringer, J. C. Grayson (Trans), David Lederer (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£35.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521525101 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521525107 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 June, 2002 |
| Series: |
Past and Present Publications |
| Pages: |
504 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
A groundbreaking study of witchcraft in modern-day Bavaria between 1300 and 1800. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a major 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. |
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17 b/w illus. 3 maps 15 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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