This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Looks at why witch-trials failed to gain momentum and escalate into ‘witch-crazes’ in certain parts of early modern Europe. Exames the rich legal records of the German city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a city which experienced a very restrained pattern of witch-trials and just one execution for witchcraft between 1561 and 1652. Explores the social and psychological conflicts th...
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Acknowledgements Map Introduction 1. ‘An honourable man should not talk about that which he cannot prove’: slander and speech about witchcraft 2. The devil’s power to ...
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William G. Naphy is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of Department at the University of Aberdeen