This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the hist

The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regard

Between 1450 and 1750 thousands of people – most of them women – were accused, prosecuted and executed for the crime of witchcraft. The witch-hunt was not a

Based on extensive archival research, this study of European witchcraft and sorcery takes into account major new developments in the historiography of witchcraf

This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how thes