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Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts

by Anne Llewellyn Barstow · 1994

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A brilliant, authoritative feminist history that examines the unrecognized holocaust—an "ethnic cleansing" of independent women in Reformation Europe—and the residual attitudes that continue to influence our culture.

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medium · 272 pages

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