Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and PeripheriesThe history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, but until now studies have been largely from the Anglo Saxon perspective. This book shows how that approach has blurred our understanding and definition of the issues involved, and sheds new light on the history of witchcraft in England. What had thus far been seen as peculiar to England is here shown to be characteristic of much of northern Europe. Taking into