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050 00 $aBF1571$b.O94 2013
082 04 $a133.430903$223
245 04 $aThe Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America /$cedited by Brian P. Levack.
246 30 $aWitchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
300 $axiv, 630 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $a[Oxford handbooks]
500 $aSeries statement on jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWitch beliefs -- Witchcraft prosecutions -- Themes of witchcraft research.
520 $aThe essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
650 0 $aWitch hunting$xHistory.
650 0 $aTrials (Witchcraft)$xHistory.
650 0 $aWitchcraft$xHistory.
700 1 $aLevack, Brian P.,$eeditor of compilation.
830 0 $aOxford handbooks.
856 48 $iTable of contents.$uhttp://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199578160.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199578160.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1404/2013474152-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1404/2013474152-d.html