Witch Hunts Thurston Robert Paperback
Witch Hunts Thurston Robert Paperback Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. What purpose did the persecutions…
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Witch Hunts Thurston Robert Paperback
Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. What purpose did the persecutions serve? Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period?
This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a 'persecuting society' in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts.He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved, with the shift from
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