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Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers & Witch Finders of the Renaissance

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Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers & Witch Finders of the Renaissance - Maxwell-Stuart, P G
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This book examinesthe lives and careers of possibly the most sadistic group of people of the 16th and 17th 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, P.G.Maxwell-Stuart charts the progress of these fierce and dangerous zealots, while providing an insight into the world they perceived as evil and which they sought to destroy."

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Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers & Witch Finders of the Renaissance 2003, Tempus Publishing, Limited

ISBN-13: 9780752423395

Hardcover