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28%OFFLyndal Roper - Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany - 9780300119831 - V9780300119831
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Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany

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Description for Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany Paperback. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book presents an account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper exploration of the psychology of witch-hunting in modern culture. Num Pages: 376 pages, 70 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 594.

A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them

From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches—of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops—and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond.

Drawing on hundreds of original trial ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300119831
SKU
V9780300119831
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Ref
99-1

About Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper is lecturer in history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College.

Reviews for Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
"In this brilliant piece of investigative history [and] . . . thanks to Roper’s patient and sophisticated work . . . we finally have a joined up history of the witch."—The Guardian "Lyndal Roper is an original and insightful historian of witchcraft, and the publication of this major work is most welcome. Her style is fluent and accessible, but ... Read more

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