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Europe's Inner Demons (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Europe's Inner DemonsTraces popular beliefs about witches to their origins, and shows how the great witch-hunt erupted, when thousands of innocent people were tortured and burned alive in the 16th and 17th centuries. Norman Cohn is the author of "The Pursuit of the Millennium" and "Warrant for Genocide".
Full description- Publisher: PIMLICO
- Published: 03 January 1998
- Format: Paperback 274 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural History | Witchcraft | Satanism & Demonology
- ISBN 13: 9780712657570 ISBN 10: 0712657576
- Sales rank: 228,309
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Europe's Inner Demons
Medieval Christianity fascinates us. And it may do us all more than passing good to work out exactly why this violent, conspiratorial and internecine period of history still encourages such passionate interest today. How as it that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code became such a massive, worldwide bestseller? I mean, its not like we've not had badly written books about the Catholic church before! Norman Cohn's well-written and well-balanced Europe's Inner Demons is for the more serious reader. It details how the great witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries erupted, and investigates how it was that thousands of innocent people, both men and women, were tortured and burned alive. What were the great fears that led to the butchering of ordinary, upstanding and often very devote, Christians? Cohn is an expert in his field -- his The Pursuit of the Millennium is an indispensible and utterly compelling guide to the millenarian and mystical sects of the Middle Ages -- and this is a fine work of history from which we'd all do well do draw the requisite lessons. by Mark Thwaite
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