Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe
by Owen Davies, Willem De Blecourt (eds.)
Publisher: Manchester University Press 2004
ISBN/ASIN: 0719066603
ISBN-13: 9780719066603
Number of pages: 224
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Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information.
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