Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700
Subtitle: A Documentary History
Contributors: Alan Charles Kors (Editor); Edward Peters (Editor)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780812235852
Subjects: Witchcraft & Wicca; Witchcraft; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - General; BCE to c 500 CE; Cultural studies; Europe; History of specific subjects; c 1600 to c 1700
First sentence: THE GREEK, LATIN, AND HEBREW ideas and terms designating various kinds of what may generally be called magic, whether practiced by men or women, reach back into a distant past and were all transformed by the Christianization of the Roman world and the later experience of early Europe.