The Medical Man and the Witch during the Renaissance
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Auteurs :
Gregory Zilboorg, Henry Ernest SigeristGenres : Essai, Psychologie, HistoireDate de publication (États-Unis) : 1935Langue d'origine : AnglaisÉditeurs :
Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University PressRésumé : Witchcraft and the witchcraft persecutions were a manifestation of the hysteria endemic among the European populations of the Middle Ages; and after the Renaissance, even when the flame of seventeenth century fanaticism, which made a belief in witchcraft a test of orthodoxy, had died down, sporadic outbursts of popular excitement still showed that the evil had not been completely allayed.
