'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditatio

This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcr

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptional

Get whisked away into the history of some of the most controversial women in history: witches. “I love how this book takes a global perspective…It's really

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, f