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Europe's Inner Demons

Autor Norman Cohn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 1993
In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th centuries when thousands of innocent people were tortured and burned alive.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780712657570
ISBN-10: 0712657576
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 134 x 218 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:2 Revised edition
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Norman Cohn is the author of many books including Noah's Flood: The Genesis Storyin Western Thought and Warrent for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Prelude in Antiquity
2. Changing views of the Devil and his power
3. The demonization of medieval heretics (1)
4. The demonization of medieval heretics (2)
5. The crushing of the Knights Templars
6. The reality of ritual magic
7. Demon-worshipping magicians that never were
8. The society of witches that never was
9. The night-witch in popular imagination
10. How the great witch-hunt did not start
11. How the great witch-hunt really started (1)
12. How the great witch-hunt really started (2)
Note on the Illustrations
Bibliographical Notes
Index