A New History Of Witchcraft

For nearly thirty years, Jeffrey B. Russell's authoritative book has been the one illustrated history to which anyone interested in this subject could turn with confidence. Now, in collaboration with Brooks Alexander, who has himself conducted innovative research in the field, this classic book has been fully revised, with an updated introduction and bibliography, new information throughout, and an extended account of witchcraft from ancient times to the present day.

Drawing comparisons between modern sorcery and that of the ancient world, the book shows how the European witch craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries developed out of a combination of ancient sorcery and medieval Christian heresy, paganism, folklore, scholastic theology, and inquisitorial trials. Whether the diabolical witchcraft for which men and women went to the stake ever existed is open to question. What matters more is that it was believed to exist by intellectuals and peasants alike.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Jeffrey Burton Russell, Alexander Brooks - Джеффри Бертон Расселл, Александер Брукс

Publisher:Thames and Hudson

Language:English

Publication Date:2007

Number of pages:216 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:170 mm / 6,7'

Height:240 mm / 9,4'

Weight:612 g

Illustrations:Colored inserts

ISBN:9780500286340