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93 - Witchcraft

from Part X - Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Sarah Kennedy
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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churchheresyMacbethSatanScotlandtrialswitches
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 720 - 726
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Ankerloo, Bengt, Clark, Stuart, and Monter, William. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. Ed. Ankarloo, Bengt and Clark, Stuart. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2002.Google Scholar
Barstow, Anne Llewellyn. Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994.Google Scholar
Briggs, Robin. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. New York: Penguin, 1996.Google Scholar
Lehmann, Hartmut. “The Persecution of Witches as Restoration of Order: The Case of Germany, 1590s–1650s.” Central European History 21.2 (1988): 107–21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wiesner, Merry E. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.Google Scholar

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