Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Advancing Death Penalty -- Procedures of Criminal Justice -- Social Control Before the Reformation -- The Witch Trials in Context -- Three Cases and a Model -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"This book illuminates the origins of the great European witch hunts by placing early witch trials in the comparative light of other criminal proceedings in Basel, Lucerne and Nuremberg. The study reveals that the increasingly harsh treatment was paralleled by mounting judicial severity in general, as well as by a keen interest in social control"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
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