Witchcraft Sourcebook Second Edition

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Including trial records, demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, and narratives of demonic possession, the documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities. This second edition includes an extended section on the witch trials in England, Scotland and New England, revised and updated introductions to the sources and guides to further reading.

This is essential reading for students of witchcraft.

About the author

Brian P. Levack is the John E. Green Regents Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications on witchcraft and demonology include The Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd edition, 2006); Witch-hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics, and Religion (2008); and The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (2013). He has also edited The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America(2013).

Product details

• Authors: Brian P. (University of Texas Levack, Brian P. Levack, Brian P. (University of Texas At Austin Levack
• Assisted by: Brian P. Levack (Editor), Levack Brian P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 08.06.2015
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History
• EAN: 9781138774964
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77496-4
• Pages: 408
• Subjects: Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Witchcraft / Witches, European legal history;religious persecution studies;gender and witchcraft;historical demonology;early modern Europe society;inquisitorial procedure analysis;primary source witchcraft research, gender and witchcraft, religious persecution studies, early modern Europe society, historical demonology, inquisitorial procedure analysis, primary source witchcraft research