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1. 1. Witchcraft In The Middle Ages

   

   A scholarly history tracing how European ideas about magic and diabolical witchcraft developed from late antiquity through the medieval centuries, showing how folklore, clerical doctrine, and social anxieties converged into the stereotype of the satanic witch. It explains the Church’s early skepticism toward night flights and maleficium, exemplified by the Canon Episcopi, and the later scholastic and inquisitorial shift that redefined magic as heresy and a pact with the Devil. By distinguishing popular practices from learned magic and demonological theory, it clarifies why systematic persecution emerged only toward the later Middle Ages and set the stage for the early modern witch hunts.

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2. 2. A History Of Witchcraft

   Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans

   

   A sweeping, scholarly account that traces how beliefs about witchcraft developed from antiquity through the early modern period, examining pagan roots, Christian theology, legal practices, and popular folklore to explain why accusations and persecutions arose. It analyzes the cultural, social, and political forces—clerical doctrine, demonology, gender anxieties, and legal institutions—that transformed isolated accusations into large-scale witch hunts in the 15th–17th centuries, and it assesses the decline of witch trials with the rise of skepticism and Enlightenment thinking. Throughout, the work separates myth from documented practice, critiques sensationalized narratives, and situates the phenomenon in the broader history of belief and power.