Witches and witch-hunts : a global history /

Witches and witch-hunts : a global history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Behringer, Wolfgang.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2004.
Description:	xxi, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Themes in history Themes in history (Polity Press)
Subject:	Witchcraft -- History. Trials (Witchcraft) -- History. Witchcraft -- Cross-cultural studies. Witches -- Crimes against. Trials (Witchcraft) Witch hunting. Witchcraft. Cross-cultural studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5360760

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ISBN:	074562717X (hb : alk. paper) 0745627188 (pb : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-315) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. The belief in witchcraft
3. The persecution of witches
4. The European age of witch-hunting
5. Outlawing witchcraft persecution in Europe
6. Witch-hunting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
7. Old and 'new witches'
8. Epilogue.