The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
A work of genuine intellectual distinction. It is an unusually original contribution to the study of witchcraft in early modern Europe, but its importance is far from being exhausted by that description.(Peter BurkeNew York Review of Books)Atour-de-forceof reconstruction, building out of scattered and fragmentary sources a whole world for the reader to inhabit.(Anthony PagdenLondon Review of Books)