Church History, June 1st, 2000
A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier. By Robert Rapley. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. ix + 277 pp. $29.95 cloth. Research on the history of European witchcraft, if no longer the growth industry it was a generation ago, continues to generate new books with some regularity (indeed, a scholarly encyclopedia on this topic is planned for the not-too-distant future). The good news is that most of them, including the two works reviewed here, are marked by solidity rather than sensationalism. Whether pushing doggedly ahead on the frontiers of archival research or conc...
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