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20 Φεβ 2020 · The European witch hunts have a long timeline, gaining momentum during the 16th century and continuing for more than 200 years. People accused of practicing maleficarum, or harmful magic, were widely persecuted, but the exact number of Europeans executed on charges of witchcraft is not certain and subject to considerable controversy.
This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence-and often a painful death-in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake.
In the early modern period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America. [1] Between 40,000 and 60,000 [2][3] were executed, almost all in Europe. The witch-hunts were particularly severe in parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
23 Απρ 2023 · The great Basque Witch Trials between 1609 and 1611 marks a period of particularly strange witch panic in the northern region of Spain, but it is also an important turning point for the Inquisition’s prosecution of witches (Levack, 2016).
13 Μαρ 2020 · Hunts for heretics turned into witchcraft trials by the late 1300s. Soon a stereotype of the witch insisted that she rejected Christianity and committed evil acts at the devil’s command. Witch hunts then occurred in various lands, especially along the Rhine in 1580–90 and 1620–30.
Focuses specifically on German witch hunts from 1560-1750 and the various social and geopolitical factors affecting them- Protestants vs. Catholic states, German anti-semitism, and how t was used to gain political power.
This document collection includes various documents relating to the witch craze in 17th century England. It allows students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical...
