Bøger af Bengt Ankarloo

Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.

This volume, chronologically the first in the six-volume series, deals with the societies of the ancient Near East.

Topics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.

The 15th to the 18th centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe. This volume brings this work together by summarising the history of the period in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved.