Witches (TRIH ep 26)
1612 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook with guest Suzannah Lipscomb, Professor of History, discussing witches and witchcraft from antiquity through the early modern period and into modern echoes. Lipscomb traces witch beliefs from ancient Greek cases (Theoris of Lemnos) to the intensification of prosecutions in the late 15th–17th centuries, noting the role of texts like Malleus Maleficarum and James VI/I's Demonology in framing witchcraft a...
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