How one of humanity’s most important inventions fuelled deadly witch hunts in Europe - Early books and influence of nearby ...
In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.
New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...
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 ...
The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity’s most significant ...
A NEW book about the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980 makes ­compelling reading. Six terrorists stormed the building in central ...
Condemned in tens of thousands for witchcraft, for cursing crops, or for dancing with the devil. Starting from the late ...
I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...
Three Dutch feminists campaign in recognition of the innocent victims of the 15th to 17th centuries witch hunts.
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 ...