The following text field will produce suggestions that follow it as you type.

Popular Categories

Witchcraft And Magic In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century Europe by Geoffrey Scarre, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Compare Witchcraft And Magic In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century Europe by Geoffrey Scarre, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Geoffrey Scarre

$52.50

The figure of the witch still has the ability to exert a powerful fascination on the modern mind. The vision of the elderly crone begging for charity at the crossroads, an object of fear and revulsion for her local community, has combined with the memory of prolonged judicial persecution and oppression to inspire contemporary movements as far removed from each other as Wiccans and women's liberation. In tackling such an emotive issue, where misogyny and violence combine with superstition and the basest of human instincts, Scarre and Callow chart a clear and refreshingly level-headed approach to the subject. Distinguishing between fact and fiction, they set the witch trials firnly back within the context of their own times and, without seeking to exonerate those responsible, demonstrate how it was possible for judiciaries and social elites to believe wholeheartedly in the reality and efficacy of witchcraft as a valid system of belief and as a dangerous threat to the fabric of society in which they lived. This new edition has been comprehensively updated to take account of the vast expansion in interest and scholarly research that has taken place in the field since the publication of the first edition. This work provides a provocative thesis for those seeking to understand the basis for the politics of persecution and a firm interpretative basis around which further exploratory research may be conducted. | Witchcraft And Magic In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century Europe by Geoffrey Scarre, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Compare more products to Geoffrey Scarre

Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 6 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 6 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $45.99
Witchcraft In Europe 400-1700 by Alan Charles Kors, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft In Europe 400-1700 by Alan Charles Kors, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $51.99
Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 1 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 1 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $38.99
Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 5 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 5 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $51.99
Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 2 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 2 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $64.99
Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 4 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 4 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $45.99
Witchcraft In Early Modern England by James Sharpe, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft In Early Modern England by James Sharpe, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $78.50
Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 3 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And Magic In Europe Volume 3 by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $51.99
Witchcraft magic and culture 1736–1951 by Owen Davies, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft magic and culture 1736–1951 by Owen Davies, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $37.99
Magic Science And Religion In Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Magic Science And Religion In Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $35.95
Early Modern European Witchcraft by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Early Modern European Witchcraft by Bengt Ankarloo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $92.50
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages by Stephen A. Mitchell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages by Stephen A. Mitchell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $58.99
Witchcraft And Belief In Early Modern Scotland by J. Goodare, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And Belief In Early Modern Scotland by J. Goodare, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $189.95
Witchcraft In England 1558-1618 by Barbara Rosen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft In England 1558-1618 by Barbara Rosen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $36.95
Witchcraft And The Papacy by Rainer Decker, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Loading Inventory...

Witchcraft And The Papacy by Rainer Decker, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Coles

Current price: $66.95
Powered by Adeptmind