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The War Against Heresy in Medieval Europe
This article therefore seeks an alternative explanation for the launching of the ‘war against heresy’ in thirteenth-century Europe, and finds it primarily in the developing self-consciousness of the new administrative elite produced by the demographic and cultural transformation of Europe in the eleventh century
Counting Witches: Illuminating and Distorting the Shape of Witchcraft Accusations in Scotland
The Reception of Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft: Witchcraft, Magic, and Radical Religion
The article discusses the historical and intellectual reception of the 16th-century treatise "Discouerie of Witchcraft" by Reginald Scot, focusing on the reasons for its republication in the 17th century and how this informs an understanding of debates about witchcraft and magic at the time.
Cursus: An Early Thirteenth-Century Source for Nocturnal Flights and Ointments in the Work of Roland of Cremona
The article discusses the notion of cursus in the works of the medieval physician and theologian Roland of Cremona in relation to mythology about witches.
A Cultural History of Witchcraft
Rationalization in Medieval Europe: The Inquisition and Sociocultural Change
On Closer Inspection - the Interrogation of Paolo Veronese
Urban Order and Urban Other: Anti-Waldensian Inquisition in Augsburg, 1393
This article analyses the new meaning persecutions of heretics acquired in later medieval towns during the 1390s, as German free and imperial cities struggled for a greater political autonomy.

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