Witches:History of a Persecution (Hardcover)

ISBN: 9780785821243

出版社: Chartwell Books,Inc.

出版年: 2006

页数: 143

定价: $12.99

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

There have been numerous attempts to accurately portray the witch-hunting mania that swept the Western world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.Bestselling author Nigel Cawthorne vividly brings the hysteria of the period to life with this powerful examination of actual withchcraft cases,and provides a compelling description of what it was like to live in a society where everyone believes in withches.Using contemportaneous court reports,depostions,letters,confessions and detailed written accounts,the author bulds a terrifying picture oa a world in the grip of hte collective mania that was the wihtchhunt.