Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch HuntsIndiana University Press, 1987 M02 22 - 224 pages This is the first book to consider the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since H.R. Trevor-Roper's classic and pioneering study appeared some fifteen years ago. Drawing upon the advances in historical and social-science scholarship of the past decade and a half, Joseph Klaits integrates the recent appreciations of witchcraft in regional studies, the history of popular culture, anthropology, sociology, and psychology to better illuminate the place of witch hunting in the context of social, political, economic and religious change. |
Contents
The Witchcraft Enigma | 8 |
Medieval Witches | 19 |
Sexual Politics and Religious Reform in | 48 |
The Beggar and the Midwife | 86 |
The Possessed | 104 |
Legal Reform | 128 |
An End to Witch Hunting | 159 |
Notes | 177 |
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