Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria
Subtitle: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: J. C. Grayson (Translator); David Lederer (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9780521482585
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Germany; Witchcraft; Body, Mind & Spirit; History - General History; Social life and customs; Religion; History; Europe - General; Sociology - General; History / Europe / General; Trials (Witchcraft)--Germany--Bavaria--History; Bavaria; Trials (Witchcraft); Witchcraft & Wicca; Bavaria (Germany)
First sentence: Since the 1970s, the researching of witch trials and their background has developed into an autonomous historical field - witchcraft studies.