Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria
Behringer, Wolfgang / Roper, Lyndal
This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. Based on an intensive search through central and local legal records for south-eastern Germany, an area extending well beyond but including present-day Bavaria, the author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300 1800. He shows conclusively that witch-hunting was not a constant or unifor...