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Jonathan Barry and Owen Davies, eds. Witchcraft Historiography.(Book review)
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Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
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June 22, 2008
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- Bailey, Michael D.
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JONATHAN BARRY and OWEN DAVIES, eds. Witchcraft Historiography. Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x + 248.
This important collection should be of interest to almost all readers of this journal. There have been countless book-length studies, and no few general surveys, of the history of European witchcraft and witch-hunting from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. The historiography of witchcraft, however, has received much less attention, and always in journal or encyclopedia articles, or as sections within books. This is hardly unusual. Booklength historiographies are rare. Yet the historiography of witchcraft is exceptionally fascinating. As the ...