Europe's Inner Demons by Norman Cohn
An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt
A concise historical analysis that traces how apocalyptic expectations, conspiratorial myths, and fears of hidden enemies in late medieval and early modern Europe—including beliefs about witchcraft, blood libel, and millenarian movements—fueled mass persecutions, social paranoia, and political violence, arguing that these recurring patterns of religious fanaticism and xenophobic imagination help explain the social dynamics that later contributed to modern extremist and totalizing ideologies.
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- 1975
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