https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv416z0 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv416z0.3 To understand witchcraft we must descend into the darkness of the ...

The medieval phenomena of witch trials and witch hunts loom large in our collective imaginations. A “witch hunt” is a political term for what one perceives as baseless persecution; anti-communist ...

Medieval Europe from the 5th century to the 15th century was a time when people were widely believed to exist as magic, monsters, and fairies. It seems that the concept of ``wicked people perform ...

One of the earliest depictions of flying witches is in a 15th-century text entitled "Le champion des dames," or "The Defender of Ladies." Martin Le Franc/W. Schild. Die Maleficia der Hexenleut' via ...

In the stacks of my local library researching a novel, I pulled a paperback edition of a medieval text from one of the shelves, thumbed through it and read this passage: ""All wickedness is but little ...

The Vatican has published a new study on the abuses committed by the medieval Inquisition and come to a rather surprising conclusion - that in fact the much feared judges of heresy were not as brutal ...

Office: Blair 360 Email: [[lahomz]] Regional Areas of Research: Medieval and Early Modern Europe Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Iberian Empires, Legal, Religion Lu Ann Homza ...