Between the devil and the host imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland

Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches showing how ordinary peasant women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ostling, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011, 2011
Series:The past & present book series / The past & present book series
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches showing how ordinary peasant women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780191731228