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Seminar 2 : The Dynamics and Dimensions of the Witch Hunt
Summary
The idea of witchcraft was not invented by the persecutors of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries : as we have seen there were precedents in the distant past, and
in the late medieval witch trials (see Kieckhefer) that helped to shape and inform the
persecutions of the early modern period. But historians are still left with the problem