Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle...

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Other Authors: Barry, Jonathan (Editor), Davies, Owen (Editor), Usborne, Cornelie (Editor)
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Published: Springer Nature 2017
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