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Renaissance: The Transformation of the West. Episode 43, Renaissance and Magic: Witchcraft

2019
Between 1450 and 1700, somewhere between 40,000 to 60,000 people were executed on charges of witchcraft. Why did ideas about demons and witches have such an appeal in early modern Europe? How did these beliefs produce a new type of criminal to be targeted by secular and spiritual authorities?
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