For three centuries, as the Black Death rampaged through Europe and the Reformation tore the Church apart, tens of thousands were arrested as witches and subjec
From early sorcery trials of the 14th century—associated primarily with French and Papal courts—to the witch executions of the late 18th century, this book'
How the persecution of witches reflected the darker side of the central social, political, and cultural developments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.