Demons of urban reform
Subtitle: early European witch trials and criminal justice, 1430-1530
By: Laura Stokes
Series: Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781403986832
Subjects: Witchcraft; History
Description: "This book illuminates the origins of the great European witch hunts by placing early witch trials in the comparative light of other criminal proceedings in Basel, Lucerne and Nuremberg. The study reveals that the increasingly harsh treatment was paralleled by mounting judicial severity in general, as well as by a keen interest in social control"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: The Advancing Death Penalty; title: Procedures of Criminal Justice; title: Social Control Before the Reformation; title: The Witch Trials in Context; title: Three Cases and a Model; title: Conclusion.