This book is a timely account of the key period in the history of English witchcraft. It looks at the tensions in church, state and society which caused witchcraft increasingly to be regarded as a threat and to be legislated against in the mid sixteenth century. It then traces the gradual onset of scepticism which led to the abolition of such legislature in the mid eighteenth century.
- ISBN10 0140130659
- ISBN13 9780140130652
- Publish Date 28 August 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English