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Witch Hunters - Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch-finders of the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Witch Hunters - Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch-finders of the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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The image of the witch finder subjecting women to the ducking stool
and the stake is familiar in popular culture, but how much do we
really know about the witch-hunters of the seventeenth century?
This fascinating book by a leading author on witchcraft answers
this question by looking at six people involved in the
witch-hunting process. He demonstrates that, however false their
beliefs may have been, they were for the most part not ignorant
bigots, but educated men who genuinely believed they were
protecting society from evil. He shows how they used 'scientific'
processes to investigate witchcraft, and produced learned theses on
how to identify and deal with witches. The final chapter, a
portrait of a female accuser, reveals the disturbing fact that
ordinary women often took part in the persecution of witches.
Maxwell-Stewart has produced an intriguing study of a dark and
often misunderstood subject. (Kirkus UK)
The history of a unique reign of terror. A thoroughly readable book
on the lives and careers of possibly the most sadistic group of
people of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the great age of
witch-hunting in Europe and North America. From the doyen of
witch-hunters, the Jesuit del Rio, to the British Matthew Hopkins,
not to mention Pierre de Lancre, a judge who was responsible for
burning 600 women, Maxwell-Stuart charts the progress of these
fierce and dangerous zealots, while providing an insight into the
world they perceived as evil and which they sought to destroy.
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