Witch-hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch-finders of the Renaissance (Revealing History)

Witch-hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch-finders of the Renaissance (Revealing History)

by P.G.Maxwell-Stuart (Author)

Synopsis

The history of a unique reign of terror. A thoroughly readable book on the lives and careers of possibly the most sadistic group of people of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the great age of witch-hunting in Europe and North America. From the doyen of witch-hunters, the Jesuit del Rio, to the British Matthew Hopkins, not to mention Pierre de Lancre, a judge who was responsible for burning 600 women, Maxwell-Stuart charts the progress of these fierce and dangerous zealots, while providing an insight into the world they perceived as evil and which they sought to destroy.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Published: 01 Nov 2003

ISBN 10: 0752423398
ISBN 13: 9780752423395