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The European Witch-Hunt
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The European Witch-Hunt, Julian Goodare's 2016 study from Routledge, is a recent scholarly synthesis of the European witch trials, including a chapter directly addressing the historiography of the phenomenon and the contested numbers of accused and executed. Its strength is that it engages the field's own debate over its evidence and estimates rather than repeating older, since revised figures uncritically. Its limit is that, as with any broad continental synthesis, a claim about one specific regional trial or trial wave should be checked against the book's own regional citations for that case.
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Julian Goodare's The European Witch-Hunt, Routledge, 2016, the top tier reflecting a recent scholarly synthesis engaging the field's own debate over its evidence and estimates rather than repeating older, since revised figures. Its limit is that a claim about one specific regional trial or trial wave should be checked against the book's own regional citations for that case. NotesRecent synthesis, with a chapter on the historiography and on the numbers.
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AuthorJulian Goodare
PublisherRoutledge
Publication Year2016
Source Typeacademic monograph
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