Witch Hunters

by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart

Book Overview

The history of a unique reign of terror. A thoroughly readable book on the lives and careers of possibly the most sadistic group of people of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'great age' of witch-hunting in Europe and North America. From the doyen of witch-hunters, the Jesuit del Rio, to the British Matthew Hopkins, not to mention Pierre de Lancre, a judge who was responsible for burning 600 women, Maxwell-Stuart charts the progress of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752434330
• ISBN13: 9780752434339
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Tempus
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A prized book

This book should not intimidate. It provides lots of historical information in a way that is easily grasped and easily visualized. Maxwell-Stuart's writings are clear and takes you very easily back and forth through accounts of "witchcraft" and "sabbats". This a book for a serious student of the history of witch hunting and the societies in Europe that it affected.

The careers of those said to be able to identify a witch

If witches were supposed to look and sound like everyone else, how could they be detected, in Salem days? WITCH HUNTERS is the first history of the careers of those said to be able to identify a witch, charting the claims and backgrounds of zealots, professional folks and others who perceived evil and sought to expose it. History lecturer Maxwell-Stuart provides a lively survey which uses source material quotes to back cultural and biographical insights.