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Jesuit Prison Ministry in the Witch Trials of the Holy Roman Empire: Friedrich Spee SJ and his Cautio Criminalis (1631). The hunts were most severe from 1580 to 1630, and the last known execution for witchcraft was in Switzerland in 1782.
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Wolfgang Behringer, the leading expert in the field, estimates that more than twenty thousand executions occurred in what is present-day Germany, more than in all other parts of Europe combined.
The witch trials in the early modern period were a series of witch hunts between the 15th and 18th centuries, when across early modern Europe, and to some extent in the. . Instead of considering natural causes or the mistakes of politicians, people would blame mysterious witches, in league with the Devil, for these misfortunes.
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the witch trials of Europe seem relatively small scale.
. Jesuit Prison Ministry is a very useful book.
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Nevertheless, it seems clear that the epicenter of European witch-hunting lay in the Germanic core of the Holy Roman Empire.
“An Unusual Inquisition”: Translated Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck.
Jesuit Prison Ministry is a very useful book. . The hunts were most severe from 1580 to 1630, and the last known execution for witchcraft was in Switzerland in 1782.
€60. The Witch Trials – Bamberg Witch Trials (Germany, 1626 – 1631) Contemporary with the Würzburg Witch Trials and others in South Germany, the Bamberg Witch Trials was one of the largest of the period, with between 300 and 600 executions. . D. . the witch trials of Europe seem relatively small scale.
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It provides new insights into the prisons where the persons detained for witchcraft were incarcerated, as well as into their trials, including their torture and executions — as seen through Jesuit eyes.
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This study analyzes and describes the witch trials of men in French and German-speaking regions, opening up a little known chapter of early modern times, and revealing the conflicts from which witch-hunts of men evolved.