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008 150324s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780198723639$q(paperback)
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020 $z9780199578160 (Hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn886743878
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042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aBF1571$b.O94 2014
245 04 $aThe Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America /$cedited by Brian P. Levack.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 630 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $a[Oxford handbooks]
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbors. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshiped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offense. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.--$cSource other than Library of Congress.
650 0 $aWitch hunting$xHistory.
650 0 $aTrials (Witchcraft)$xHistory.
650 0 $aWitchcraft$xHistory.
650 7 $aTrials (Witchcraft)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01156425
650 7 $aWitch hunting.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01747420
650 7 $aWitchcraft.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01176327
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aLevack, Brian P.,$eeditor.
830 0 $aOxford handbooks.