Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530 by Stokes, Laura Patricia

Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403986832)

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Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530 by Stokes, Laura Patricia

Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530

$159.99
Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530 by Stokes, Laura Patricia

Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530

$159.99
Format: Hardcover
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A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's criminal procedure on one hand, and between witchcraft fears and social control on the other.

Author: Laura Patricia Stokes
ISBN-10: 1403986835
ISBN-13: 9781403986832
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2011
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.70d
By Laura Patricia Stokes
By Laura Patricia Stokes
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LAURA PATRICIA STOKES Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University in California, USA. She has previously published articles on the integration of torture into ordinary judicial procedure and the development of the witch stereotype during the fifteenth century.

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