{"product_id":"witchcraft-a-history-in-thirteen-trials","title":"Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials","description":"\u003cp\u003eWitchfinder General,and Salem,and Malleus Maleficarum.and The world ofand witch-huntsand andand witch trialsand sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear  witch-hunt' in today's media, and the misogyny that shaped witch trials is all too familiar.and Three women were prosecuted under a version of the 1735 Witchcraft Act as recently as 2018.Inand Witchcraft, Professor Marion Gibson uses thirteen significant trials to tell theand global historyand of witchcraft and witch-hunts. As well as exploring the origins of witch-hunts through some of theand most famous trialsand from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, it takes us in new and surprising directions. It shows us how witchcraft was reimagined by lawyers and radical historians in France, how suspicions of sorcery led to murder in Jazz Age Pennsylvania, the effects of colonialism and Christian missionary zeal on  witches' in Africa, and how even today a witch trial can come in many guises. and Professor Gibson also tellsand the stories of the  witches' - mostly women like Helena Scheuberin, Anny Sampson and Joan Wright,and whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men, such as King James I and  Witchfinder General' Matthew Hopkins, who hounded them.Once a tool invented by demonologists to hurt and silence their enemies, witch trials have been twisted and transformed over the course of history and the lines between witch and witch-hunter blurred.and For the fortunate, a witch-hunt is just a metaphor, but, as this book makes clear, witches are truly still on trial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marion Gibson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213595308092,"sku":"9781398508514","price":3565.75,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/978139850851444_d0c49688-24f7-4e59-ad24-86e706d345bb.jpg?v=1776713913","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/witchcraft-a-history-in-thirteen-trials","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}