On the Demon-Mania of Witches.

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 1998| | Copyright

Jean Bodin. Abridged, trans. and ed. Randy A. Scott and Jonathan L. Pearl. (Renaissance and Reformation Texts in Translation, 7.) Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1995. 218 pp. $12. ISBN: 0-969-5125-7.

It is one of the enduring perplexities of the European witch hunts that some of the most learned and innovative thinkers of the era were also the most vehement and apparently credulous witchmongers. As this translation of On the Demon-Mania of Witches reveals, Jean Bodin may embody that contradiction more powerfully than any of his contemporaries. ...

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