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.

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

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

In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

“Your average witch is just somebody who lives next to you and has this spiritual practice you don’t know about,” Deborah ...

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

This myth was promoted by the Egyptologist Margaret Murray in the early 20th century and was then debunked by the historian C. L'Estrange Ewen almost as soon as it appeared. It was founded on a ...

(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 ...

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.