Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts

3.85

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A brilliant, authoritative feminist history that examines the unrecognized holocaust--an "ethnic cleansing" of independent women in Reformation Europe--and the residual attitudes that continue to influence our culture.

Genres: HistoryNonfictionFeminismWitchesWitchcraftWomensReligionResearchHistoricalMedieval

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