Doctors, Folk Medicine And The Inquisition
Subtitle: The Repression Of Magical Healing In Portugal During The Enlightenment (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World) (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: May 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9789004143456
Subjects: History of medicine; Portugal; History: World; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Witchcraft; Computers - General Information; Modern - 18th Century; Inquisition; Computer Science; General; Psychotherapy - General; 18th century; History; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and s; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
First sentence: Just over thirty years ago, noted witchcraft historian H.C. Erik Midelfort wrote, "...inquiries into the larger issues of witchcraft cannot, in fact, fruitfully proceed in the absence of detailed local studies."