Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark

by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup

This book offers the first ever attempt to compare lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, jurisdiction in Italy relating to witchcraft rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the condemnation and narratives of witchcraft as they were presented by people involved in the trials in a Roman-Catholic and Danish-Lutheran context, and ties...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230300715
• ISBN13: 9780230300712
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"