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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
by:
Frances A. Yates
4.24 avg rating β 554 ratings
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Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic
by:
Emma Wilby
4.40 avg rating β 277 ratings
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Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture
by:
Ita MacCarthy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
by:
Robert Burton
4.11 avg rating β 1,840 ratings
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
by:
Kathleen Wellman
3.93 avg rating β 58 ratings
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Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern English Travel
by:
Anthony Parr
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
by:
Leonie Frieda
3.96 avg rating β 8,375 ratings
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The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome
by:
Ingrid D. Rowland
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Princesse of Versaille
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Charles Elliott
4.33 avg rating β 42 ratings
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Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
by:
OKEEFE,
3.88 avg rating β 25 ratings
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The Great Art of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher
by:
Daniel Stolzenberg
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
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Princess Michael of Kent
3.75 avg rating β 522 ratings
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The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
by:
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
3.78 avg rating β 544 ratings
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
by:
Charles Beauclerk
3.85 avg rating β 585 ratings
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The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660β1700
by:
Elizabeth Howe
3.83 avg rating β 24 ratings
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The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I
by:
Benjamin Woolley
3.83 avg rating β 812 ratings
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The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
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Robert Kirk
3.75 avg rating β 1,205 ratings
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
4.02 avg rating β 6,463 ratings
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Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
by:
Katharine Hodgkin
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by:
Carlo Ginzburg
4.01 avg rating β 1,230 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
by:
Stacy Schiff
3.25 avg rating β 23,705 ratings
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Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
by:
Lyndal Roper
3.98 avg rating β 345 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
by:
Mona Chollet
4.06 avg rating β 21,530 ratings
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Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science
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Marco Beretta
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance
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Professor Don Cameron Allen
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
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Katharine M. Briggs
4.13 avg rating β 187 ratings
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At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
by:
Diane Purkiss
3.73 avg rating β 326 ratings
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Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England
by:
Michael Witmore
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
by:
Piero Camporesi
3.74 avg rating β 106 ratings
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The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650 - 1744
by:
Christopher Hibbert
3.77 avg rating β 122 ratings
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670 - 1740
by:
Lizanne Henderson
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
by:
Carlo Ginzburg
4.15 avg rating β 502 ratings
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The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
by:
Brian P. Copenhaver
3.72 avg rating β 148 ratings
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Cosmographical Glass Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe
by:
S.K. Heninger Jr.
4.62 avg rating β 8 ratings
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A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
by:
Derek K. Wilson
3.08 avg rating β 118 ratings
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Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
by:
Maureen Waller
3.85 avg rating β 635 ratings
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An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye 1652-1699
by:
Michael Hunter
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
by:
John V. Fleming
3.20 avg rating β 200 ratings
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Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn: Kircher's Latium and Its Legacy
by:
Harry B. Evans
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Renaissance Paratexts
by:
Helen Smith
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Himmlische Libes-KΓΌsse
by:
Birgit Biehl-Werner
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Murder of a Medici Princess
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Caroline P. Murphy
3.94 avg rating β 1,333 ratings
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The Archaeology of Magic: Gender and Domestic Protection in Seventeenth-Century New England
by:
C. Riley Auge
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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A Discourse Concerning Prodigies
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John Spencer
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by:
Lauren Kassell
4.20 avg rating β 15 ratings
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Printed in Utopia: The Renaissanceβs Radicalism
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Ed Simon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725 (Aries Book Series -Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism, 14)
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Robert Collis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Horn Exalted or, Roome for Cuckolds; Being a Treatise Concerning the Reason and Original of the Word Cuckold, and Why Such Are Said to Wear Horns
by:
Unknown
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
by:
Keith Thomas
4.17 avg rating β 1,546 ratings
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
by:
Owen Davies
4.03 avg rating β 604 ratings
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The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France
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Paul Duro
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
by:
Marc Aronson
3.67 avg rating β 1,469 ratings
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Caxton's Mirrour of the World (Early English Text Society Extra Series, 110)
by:
Oliver H. Prior
4.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
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A History of Science, Magic and Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe
by:
Steven P. Marrone
3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Les Costumes grotesques et les métiers: XVIIe siècle
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Nicolas de Larmessin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 222) (English and German Edition)
by:
Karin E. Olsen
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Clandestine Philosophy: New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823 (Ucla Clark Memorial Library Series)
by:
Gianni Paganini
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
by:
Emma Wilby
4.46 avg rating β 96 ratings
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Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books: A Scholarly Anthology
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Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
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Philip Ball
3.88 avg rating β 298 ratings
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Mountebanks and Medicasters: A History of Italian Charlatans from the Middle Ages to the Present
by:
Piero Gambaccini
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague
by:
Peter H. Marshall
3.74 avg rating β 165 ratings
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1668: The Year of the Animal in France
by:
Peter Sahlins
4.58 avg rating β 12 ratings
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The Masonic Magician: The Life and Death of Count Cagliostro and His Egyptian Rite
by:
Philippa Faulks
3.84 avg rating β 96 ratings
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Immaculate Conceptions: The Power of the Religious Imagination in Early Modern Spain
by:
Rosilie HernΓ‘ndez
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Devil's Art: Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany
by:
Jason Philip Coy
3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Satan and the Scots: The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560 - 1700
by:
Michelle D. Brock
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
by:
Olivia Weisser
4.33 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Baroque: Figures of Excess in Seventeenth-Century European Art and German Literature
by:
Peter J. Burgard
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
by:
Peter Burke
3.98 avg rating β 335 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art
by:
Jane Turner
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
by:
Carlos M.N. Eire
4.34 avg rating β 431 ratings
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Printed Pandemonium: Popular Print and Politics in the Netherlands 1650-72
by:
Michel Reinders
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England
by:
Deborah Willis
3.85 avg rating β 27 ratings
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Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany
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Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Accused: British Witches throughout History
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Willow Winsham
3.69 avg rating β 103 ratings
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The Pack of Autolycus: Or, Strange and Terrible News of Ghosts, Apparitions, Monstrous Births, Showers of Wheat, Judgments of God, and Other Prodigious and Fearful Happenings as Told in Broadside Ballads of the Years 1624-1693
by:
Hyder Edward Rollins
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain
by:
Sherry Velasco
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
by:
Marion L. Starkey
3.60 avg rating β 939 ratings
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Quid Est Secretum?: Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
by:
Ralph Dekoninck
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
by:
Sarah F. Williams
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
by:
Miriam Eliav-Feldon
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
by:
Hugh Trevor-Roper
3.52 avg rating β 96 ratings
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Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain
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William A. Christian Jr.
4.14 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica
by:
Thomas Browne
4.28 avg rating β 46 ratings
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In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
by:
Mary Beth Norton
3.67 avg rating β 1,461 ratings
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The Admirable Urquhart: Selected writings. Edited and introduced by Richard Boston
by:
Richard] selected and edited by [Boston
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
by:
Robin Briggs
3.76 avg rating β 298 ratings
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Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth
by:
Garry Wills
3.73 avg rating β 101 ratings
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Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography
by:
Ludwig Volkmann
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
by:
Malcolm Gaskill
3.27 avg rating β 1,011 ratings
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Visions, Prophecies and Divinations: Early Modern Messianism and Millenarianism in Iberian America, Spain and Portugal (The Iberian Religious World, 3)
by:
Ana Paula Torres
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Witchcraft in Old and New England 1929
by:
George Lyman Kittredge
3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700: From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts
by:
Robert Schuler
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by:
Carol F. Karlsen
3.80 avg rating β 2,018 ratings
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Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples: Politics, Communication and Culture
by:
Giancarlo Alfano
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
by:
Frances Hill
3.73 avg rating β 1,619 ratings
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Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (77)
by:
A.W. Bates
4.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
by:
John Putnam Demos
3.78 avg rating β 334 ratings
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Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700
by:
Ulla Koskinen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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