How one of humanity’s most important inventions fuelled deadly witch hunts in Europe - Early books and influence of nearby ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant ...

New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

(Burchard of Worms, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) One change that led to witch trials across Europe was a change in how the Catholic Church viewed witchcraft. In the 10th century ...

As we head deep into spooky season, one writer reflects on the radical Halloween histories of marginalised genders and queer ...

Between 1450 and 1750, approximately 90,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe, resulting in the execution of around 45,000. This explosion of trials, popularly known as the “witch craze, ...

The advent of the printing press fuelled the spread of misinformation and the emergence of witch trials across Europe in the second half of the 15th century, according to a new study. The witch ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450.