Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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· Bloomsbury Publishing
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The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also challenges the widespread assumption that Europe has been 'disenchanted'. For the first time surveys are given of the social role of witchcraft in European communities down to the end of the nineteenth century and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers

About the author

Roy Porter was a famous jazz drummer and bandleader in the 1940s-60s. ROY PORTER sometime Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK.

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