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Thinking with Demons

The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

by Stuart Clark

A major intellectual history that situates demonology within the mainstream thought of early modern Europe. Clark shows how learned writing on witches drew on contemporary ideas of language, natural philosophy, history, religion and political order, rather than standing apart as mere superstition. Dense and wide-ranging, it is essential reading for advanced students of the witch trials, demonology and the history of ideas.

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