Witchcraft, Healing, and Popular Diseases (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology
Redaktion: Levack, Brian P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gathering together the vast literature on witchcraft related issues published in the last decade, this six-volume set focuses on issues such as gender, government and law, the culture of religion and the occult.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136539398
• Artikelnr.: 38271031

Autorenporträt

Brian P. Levack is John Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A former Guggenheim Fellow, his other writings on witchcraft include Articleson Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (1992), TheWitch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (1995), and Witchcraftand Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies (1999). Dr. Levack is also a specialist in the history of early modern England and Scotland, and has written several books on the subject.

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