{"product_id":"witchcraft-in-europe-4001700-a-documentary-history-middle-ages-series","title":"Witchcraft in Europe  400-1700: A Documentary History (Middle Ages Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001  The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded  the classic anthology of contemporary texts reexamines the phenomenon of witchcraft  taking into account the remarkable scholarship since the books publication almost thirty years ago.  Spanning the period from 400 to 1700  the second edition of Witchcraft in Europe assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first  many newly translated  along with new illustrations that trace the development of witch-beliefs from late Mediterranean antiquity through the Enlightenment. Trial records  inquisitors reports  eyewitness statements  and witches confessions  along with striking contemporary illustrations depicting the career of the Devil and his works  testify to the hundreds of years of terror that enslaved an entire continent.  Thomas Aquinas  Martin Luther  Thomas Hobbes  and other thinkers are quoted at length in order to determine the intellectual  perceptual  and legal processes by which \"folklore\" was transformed into systematic demonology and persecution. Together with explanatory notes  introductory essayswhich have been revised to reflect current researchand a new bibliography  the documents gathered in Witchcraft in Europe vividly illumine the dark side of the European mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945512169525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812217519","price":58.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812217513.jpg?v=1769891375","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/witchcraft-in-europe-4001700-a-documentary-history-middle-ages-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}