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The Witchcraft Sourcebook - Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Witchcraft Sourcebook - Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a
fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the
development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the
eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period
between 1400 and 1750, when more than 100,000 people - most of them
women - were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and colonial
America. During these years the prominent stereotype of the witch
as an evil magician and servant of Satan emerged. Catholics and
Protestants alike feared that the Devil and his human confederates
were destroying Christian society. Including trial records,
demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, narratives of
demonic possession, and artistic depiction of witches, the
documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have
perceived alleged witches and their activities. Brian P. Levack
shows how notions of witchcraft have changed over time and
considers the connection between gender and witchcraft and the
nature of the witch's perceived power. This second edition includes
an extended section on the witch trials in England, Scotland and
New England, fully revised and updated introductions to the sources
to include the latest scholarship and a short bibliography at the
end of each introduction to guide students in their further
reading. The Sourcebook provides students of the history of
witchcraft with a broad range of sources, many of which have been
translated into English for the first time, with commentary and
background by one of the leading scholars in the field.
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