A01=P G Maxwell-Stuart
Author_P G Maxwell-Stuart
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dark history
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jesuit del rio
matthew hopkins
pierre de lancre
professional prickers
unwitchers and witch finders of the renaissance
witch hunting
witch-hunter
witchfinder general
zealots
Product details
- ISBN 9780752434339
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 124 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2005
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St. Andrews and is an acknowledged expert on the occult. His other books include Witchcraft: A History (Tempus 2004), Wizards: A History (Tempus 2004), The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History, and Satan's Conspiracy: Magic & Witchcraft in Sixteenth Century Scotland. He is currently writing An Abundance of Witches: The Great Scottish Witch-Hunt 1658-1662, also for Tempus. He lives in St. Andrews.
