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  The Witchcraft Sourcebook (Paperback) By (author) Brian Levack

  

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  Short Description for The Witchcraft SourcebookMore than 100,000 people, mainly women, were prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft between 1450 and 1750. This new anthology looks at the connections between gender and witchcraft and how notions of witchcraft changed over time.
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  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
  • Published: 01 March 2004
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Gender Studies: Women | European History | History Of The Americas | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Magic, Spells & Alchemy | Witchcraft & Wicca | Witchcraft
  • ISBN 13: 9780415195065 ISBN 10: 0415195063
  • Sales rank: 214,960

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• This collection of documents illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the twentieth century. Most of the sources come from the period between 1400 and 1750, when more than 100,000 people - mainly women - were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and colonial America. The sources include 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. Brian Levack shows how notions of witchcraft changed over time. He looks at the connection between gender and witchcraft and the nature of the witch's perceived power. 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.