Witch Politics in Early Modern Europe (1400-1800)

Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging ''state'', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be completed?From a sociological point of view, the findings of recent international research on witches provide a model of a more general, highly ambivalent, ''pastoral'' a...