TY  - JOUR
AU  - Albrecht Classen
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Mediaevistik
IS  - 1
VL  - 34
SN  - 2199-806X
TI  - , trans. Michael D. Bailey. Magic in History Sourcebook Series. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020, 127 pp., 1 map.
DO  - 10.3726/med.2021.01.114
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1238879
N2  - 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, 
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