The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History

by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart

Witchcraft and the occult sciences are areas which have benefited enormously from the spread of more sophisticated cultural studies in recent years. The old debate as to whether or not witches were really believed to exist has collapsed in the face of the overwhelming bodies of evidence suggesting a genuine and widespread acceptance of the occult in a notionally Christian Europe.
This excellent and wide-ranging documentary anthology shows the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333688147
• ISBN13: 9780333688144
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"