Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

by Gary K. Waite

In the fifteenth century many authorities did not believe Inquisitors' stories of a supposed Satanic witch sect. However, the religious conflict of the sixteenth-century Reformation - especially popular movements of reform and revolt - helped to create an atmosphere in which diabolical conspiracies (which swept up religious dissidents, Jews and magicians into their nets) were believed to pose a very real threat. Fear of the Devil and his followers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333754344
• ISBN13: 9780333754344
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"