Robert Thurston, Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose: The Rise and Fall of the With Hunts in Europe and North America
The American historian Robert Thurston, who until recently had concentrated on the history of the Stalinist repression in Soviet times, endeavours in this book to develop ‘a broad cultural approach to the witch hunts’ (168). The book is intended for ‘a general audience’ (182), although the author h...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The American historian Robert Thurston, who until recently had concentrated on the history of the Stalinist repression in Soviet times, endeavours in this book to develop ‘a broad cultural approach to the witch hunts’ (168). The book is intended for ‘a general audience’ (182), although the author hopes that scholars will also benefit from it. Thurston’s starting point is formed by research he has done on witchcraft trials in Ban de la Roche or Steinthal, a small domain in bilingual Alsace. T... |
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