The Routledge History of Witchcraft

Johannes Dillinger is Professor of Early Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He has published widely on witchcraft and magic, political crime, and constitutional history. His previous publications include Hexen und Magie (2018) and Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America (2012).

Editor’s Preface; Part 1: Witches in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages; Witches in Greece and Rome; Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology in the Bible, Ancient Judaism and Earliest Christianity; Demons and Witchcraft in the Early Church; Witchcraft and Demonology in the Middle Ages; The Rise of the Witchcraft Doctrine; Part 2: The Early Modern Witch Hunts: Regions and Issues; Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy; Germany – "the Mother of the Witches"; Witch Hunts in the Low Countries (1450-1685); Witch Hunts in France; Witch Hunting in Spain: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Witch Hunts in Britain; Witchcraft in Scandinavia; Witch Hunts in Eastern Central Europe; Witch Hunts in Eastern Europe; The Salem Witch Hunt; Witchcraft and the Early Modern Media; Witchcraft and Gender; Child-Witches; Witchcraft in Everyday Life; The Interrelationship of Magic and Witchcraft; Part 3: Modern Concepts of Witches; Child Eaters and Other Problems of Democracy: Witchcraft and the American Frontier; Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe; Shifting Figures of the Witch in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Wicca; Disciples of Hell: The History of Satanism; Part 4: Witches and the Arts; Witchcraft and Early Modern Art (1450-1550); The Witch Figure in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature; Where Have All the Witches Gone? The Disappearing Witch and Children’s Literature; Witchcraft in Film