Witch Hunting and Prosecuting in Early Modern Italy: A Historiographical Survey
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This article critically assesses Italian scholarship on the history of witchcraft over last 60 years. Beginning with Carlo Ginzburg’s influential Night Battles (published in 1966 and translated to English 1983) ending recent work Matteo Duni, Tamar Herzig, Vincenzo Lavenia Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, traces intellectual contexts shifts historiographical debates.
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عنوان ژورنال: Religions
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2077-1444']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050610