is the author of Witchcraft Sourcebook, published 2003 under ISBN 9780415195058 and ISBN. The Sourcebook provides students of the history of witchcraft with a broad range of sources, many of which have been translated into English for the first time, with commentary and background by one of the leading scholars in the field. This anthology provides students of the history of witchcraft with a broad range of sources, many of which have been translated into English for the first time, with commentary and background by one of the leading scholars in the field.Levack, Brian P. He is co-author of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1999) and the editor of The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2004). This second edition includes an extended section on the witch trials in England, Scotland and New England, fully revised and updated introductions to the sources to include the latest scholarship and a short bibliography at the end of each introduction to guide students in their further reading. His publications on witchcraft include The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd edn, 2006) and Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (2008). He looks at the connection between gender and witchcraft and the nature of the witchs perceived power.This Sourcebook provides students of the history of witchcraft with a broad range of sources, many of which have been translated into English for the first time, with. Levack shows how notions of witchcraft have changed over time and considers the connection between gender and witchcraft and the nature of the witch’s perceived power. Levack shows how notions of witchcraft have changed over time.
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Including trial records, demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, narratives of demonic possession, and artistic depiction of witches, the documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities. Catholics and Protestants alike feared that the Devil and his human confederates were destroying Christian society. Nuremberg, par exemple, malgr la publication par Heinrich Kramer d’une version abrvie. During these years the prominent stereotype of the witch as an evil magician and servant of Satan emerged. Brian Levack value le nombre des excutions 60 00041. Many of the sources come from the period between 14, when more than 100,000 people – most of them women – were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and colonial America. The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century.
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