Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
(Part of the Magic in History Series)
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The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches. So wrote Johan Huizinga more than eighty years ago in his classic Autumn of the Middle Ages. Although Huizinga was correct in his observation, modern readers have tended to focus on the more spectacular witch-hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Nevertheless, it was during the late Middle Ages that the full stereotype of demonic witchcraft developed...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0271022264
ISBN13:9780271022260
Release Date:November 2002
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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