, trans. Michael D. Bailey. Magic in History Sourcebook Series. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020, 127 pp., 1 map.

One of the most gruesome phenomena of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age was certainly the witch craze, which victimized a countless number of innocent people who were not only imprisoned and tortured, but then also burned at the stake. Once in the hands of inquisitors, who caused incredible pain to the poor victims they accused incriminated many other people out of sheer desperation. There is no shortage of relevant scholarly studies, some of which Michael Bailey has assembled in the select bibliography at the end of this thin anthology. However, it would have been advisable to expand it a little (I would have included, for instance, Joanna Miles,