European Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft): Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500 1136807594, 9781136807596

In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for ea

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European Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft): Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500
1136807594, 9781136807596

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s missio

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Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan a

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Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture. As the “culture of the people,” popular cultu

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A study of teenage witches in twentieth-century American pop culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in

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