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Witch Hunts
Lively and readable. It is written in a style as personal and attractive as any I have encountered...It has just the right balance of magisterial detachment and personal insight. Ronald Hutton University of Bristol Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom Robert Thurston outlines
the development of a persecuting society in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics Jews lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torture.
the development of a persecuting society in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics Jews lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torture.
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