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Merry E. Wiesner, ed. Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)

MERRY E. WIESNER, ed. Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Pp. xxii + 202.

This book, a volume in Houghton Mifflin's Problems in European Civilization series, brings together selections from recent scholarship on early modern European witchcraft in order to expose students to major debates in the field. The book is divided into four parts, representing broad areas of research: "Intellectual Foundations and Demonology"; "Political, Economic, and Social Causes"; "Accusations, Trials, and Panics"; and the ever-contentious subject of "Gender and Witchcraft." In each section, Merry Wiesner presents four selections drawn from recent ...

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