Covers the rise of "white magic" & Christian persecution of sorcery.

Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This vol

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research t

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research t

In the ancient Near East, the art of influencing the natural course of events by means of spells and other ritual forms was universal. The social and political