Author: Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey
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Fifteenth-Century Supernatural Forces, Demonic or Divine?
The fifteenth century, as throughout the Middle Ages, was concerned above all with correct errors and providing clarity, for, in…
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Spells, and Charms in Early European Witchcraft Literature
In 1917, in a lecture in Munich on ‘Science as a Vocation,’ Max Weber first articulated his notion of “the…
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Salem Witch Hunt and Others in the Seventeenth-Century
Historians of witchcraft know the long shadow cast by the Salem witch hunt of 1692, related to cultural aspects of…
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Origins Of The Witch Hunts And Christian Inquisition
The first true witch hunts began in western Europe in the early fifteenth-century, and the earliest series of trials took…
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‘The Demonology Of William Of Auvergne: By Fire And Sword’
William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris from 1228 until 1249, is one of the major figures in the medieval history…
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Owen Davies’ ‘Grimoires: A History of Magic Books’
This “history of magic books” might equally have been subtitled a “history of magic through books.” Not all forms of…
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The Demonological State Of Witchcraft In Historical Research
Many historians of witchcraft and demonology have at times alluded to the seemingly transhistorical and transcultural nature of their studies.
