History 2403E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: European Witchcraft, Jacob Sprenger, Heinrich Kramer
21 Apr 2016
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Early modern european witchcraft: an introduction there has been beliefs about witches in every aspect of history and society. When did all of this start: beliefs are ancient, round about the year 1400 where we find court records from. They say that its origin is in the devil: the trade is allegiance for power, the witch is now a threat to the church and the state. Witches stand as gods representing on earth instead of the kings o. Heinrich kramer and jacob sprenger (dominican: dominican monks who wrote ^ that book. After the book, there is a downturn of witchcrafts and hunts because of the reformation in 1517. From 1560 1630 is the highest peak in witchcraft. The last person in europe was executed in 1782 for witchcraft - anna goldi in glarus switzerland: in 2007, her descendants demands an apology from city council they apologized and now there is a museum.
