Witchcraft and the Inquisition in Venice 1550-1650

Martin, Ruth

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 063116118X ISBN 13: 9780631161189

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1989

Investigates the striking gentleness of the witch hunts in northern Italy at a time when most of Europe was engulfed in a frenzy of denunciation, torture, and execution. Concludes that witches in Venice were urban and commercial, and concerned with treasure-hunting, love patients, and folk medicine, and that the church sought to correct miscreants rather than to elminate a competing belief system. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.