Research Catalog

Title

The witch hunts : a history of the witch persecutions in Europe and North America / Robert W. Thurston.

Author

Thurston, Robert W.

Publication

Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2007.

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Thurston, Robert W.

Description

xviii, 326 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 20 cm.

Summary

"In this revised edition, first published under the title of Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose, Robert Thurston explores the events of the witch hunts and the social and psychological factors which caused them. Increasingly negative images of women, revised judicial procedures and religious conflicts had their part to play in these strange times, as did ideas from sources as diverse as the Bible and folk beliefs. The Witch Hunts takes a long historical view of the witch persecutions, and puts into perspective the effects of fear and violence in even the most reasonable of societies."--Jacket.

Subject

• Witchcraft > Europe > History
• Witchcraft > United States > History
• Trials (Witchcraft) > Europe > History
• Trials (Witchcraft) > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Rev. ed. of Witch, wicce, Mother Goose. 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-311) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. New fears in Europe : 700-1500 -- 2. Towards the witch pyres : images and realities of European women to 1500 -- 3. The spread of the witch trials -- 4. Victims and processes -- 5. The decline and end of the hunts.

ISBN

• 1405840838 (pbk.)
• 9781405840835 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006050686

OCLC

70883263

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library