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Witch Hunt: History of a Persecution: The History of Persecution
by: Nigel Cawthorne

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9780572029241
ISBN: 0572029241
Label: Arcturus foulsham
Manufacturer: Arcturus foulsham
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 01, 2003
Publisher: Arcturus foulsham
Studio: Arcturus foulsham
Sales Rank: 280544

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Interesting sourcebook in need of a good copy-editor
The writer begins this book by stating that is it not a revisionist history seeking to offer a modern explanation of the events it describes. It is simply a country-by-country account of witch trials roughly spanning the 15th-18th centuries, told directly through trial 'reports', prison letters of the accused, and contemporary accounts of the many thousands of accusations, tortures and executions.

As such, it is more a sourcebook rather than a detailed exploration of the subject. If you want to know exactly how many people were tortured and executed in different European countries between the above dates, or harbour a fascination for the particular methods of torture used to elicit confessions (some of them absolutely gut-wrenching), ... Read More:

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- Good book but......
It is full of grammatical mistakes. I am not one who usuallt goes fishing or such matters in books but in thi one they look you straight in the eye. This said, the book is a very interesting read and brings up case after case after case, and some intresting side-effects the persecutions.

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- A more European view of the witch hunts.
This book is different from the majority of books covering this subject in that it doesn't just concentrate on British witch hunts or the infamous Salem witch trials. Instead it features a more general, international view of the subject and in doing so gives a far better insight into just how widespread the belief in, and fear of witchcraft was in early modern Europe. There are chapters covering the problem in France, Germany, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy and Ireland. The author also includes a list of further reading which is useful.
Nigel Cawthorn has a nice, easy style of writing that makes reading this text more enjoyable. The downside of this book is that it is a little too graphic at times. It is enough to know that the poor unfortunates accused ... Read More:

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- Gruesome but try and put it down!!
This book is fabulous! Absolutely gripping, mind-boggling, gruesome but try and put it down. It makes you challenge the way you think about a lot of things.............and makes your stomach lurch at some of the cruel tortures you read about! Makes you count your blessings that you are born in this era and not that one! You cannot imagine the cruelties that existed unless you read of them from well documented sources.

Read it, get absorbed but dont let the kids find it! Yuk! Excellent read!

Books : Witch Hunt: History of a Persecution: The History of Persecution