Dreams of Reason: Witch hunting and legal rationality.
Channel: Night Stories
Date: 2019-10-31

In which we discuss how the development of more systematic legal systems contributed to the persecution of alleged witches.

This is my first attempt at anything like this and obviously has its defects. In particular I'd like to highlight the obvious oversight in so far as I don't discuss witchcraft and gender at all here; I intend to tackle this subject in a later episode, but to get the ball rolling I went with what I think is a simpler aspect of the witch hunt.

Script with citations and bibliography: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lPzEKBEKpvKqEotggkD1KmsvIPNV7_s7

All music and video by the author.

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