Full name: Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft

Author: Robin Briggs Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Religion, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140144383 0140144382

Witches and Neighbors is a remarkable interpretation of the course and causes of the fear and persecution of witches that bedeviled Europe for centuries. Robin Briggs draws on the latest research into the local realities underlying the phenomenon. In particular, he employs his own extensive work in the rich archives hidden away in the area in Europe in which so many cases became known. Who were the witches? What were their practices? Who believed in them? What was their place in society? Why, exactly, were they feared? And how were they accused, tried, and executed? Robin Briggs attempts to answer these questions. But he goes one step further than simply looking at the persecutions themselves; he focuses on the society in which perceived witchcraft existed. Wiches and Neighbors is an illuminating social and cultural history of a period all too often darkened by myth and misinformation. Similar books: Witchcraze by Anne L. Barstow Witch Hunt by Nigel Cawthorne Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill The Night Battles by Carlo Ginzburg The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P. Levack Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath by Carlo Ginzburg A History of Witchcraft by Jeffrey B. Russell Entertaining Satan by John Demos 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley Witchcraft in the Middle Ages by Jeffrey B. Russell A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies Catastrophe by David Keys Witchcraft in Europe by Alan Charles Kors The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg The Civilization of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas Big Gods by Ara Norenzayan Religion in Human Evolution by Robert N. Bellah No god but God by Reza Aslan