Witch Hunters - Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch-finders of the Renaissance (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	The History Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	September 2003
Authors:	P.G. Maxwell-Stuart
Dimensions:	248 x 172 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-0-7524-2339-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Witchcraft Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Witchcraft Promotions
LSN:	0-7524-2339-8
Barcode:	9780752423395

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