Witch Hunts and Witch Trials: Home

by Jane Kamensky | New York Times | 27 October 2015

Published May 18, 2017.

By Jess Blumberg, smithsonian.com
October 23, 2007

By Professor Douglas O. Linder
Website maintained by University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.

Originally published November 4, 2011.

University of Virginia

Words by Charlotte Hodgman. Historical advisor: Owen Davies of the University of Hertfordshire. November 21, 2010.

Part of Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft, primarily in Europe.

Laura Stokes is an Assistant Professor in Stanford’s Department of History, whose work has mostly focused on the origins and prosecution of witchcraft in fifteenth century Europe. Her Ph.D. dissertation, which chronicled the rise of such persecution as well as its linkages to developments in judicial torture, has now been revised into a book, Demons of Urban Reform: The Rise of Witchcraft Persecution, 1430-1530.

An examination of the causes and repercussions of the persecution of young women accused of being witches in the 1600s in America.

by Margo Burns
Revised: 10/30/15