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   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:52:08 +0200, Steve Hayes    
   wrote:   
   /snip/   
      
   >One of the other Inklings, Charles Williams wrote a history of Christianity in   
   >relation to witchcraft. The title is simply "Witchcraft".   
      
   I read that years ago but don't remember much about it. Was there something   
   in it or quoted to the effect of the Devil being there -- inspiring the   
   hunters?   
      
      
   >It is worth reading if only to discover that the kind of behaviour you   
   >describe did not belong to the Middle Ages, but to Early Modern Europe.   
   >   
   >The Great European Witchhunt was a prduct of modernity, not of the Middle   
   >Ages. And, as Williams shows, it was an aberration, that lasted about 200   
   >years. Many people speak as though witchhunting was "medieval". It wasn't (and   
   >isn't). It was, and is, modern.   
      
      
   Thanks for the correction. I'm so bad on dates and periods. What dates do   
   Middle Ages, Early Modern, etc refer to? And why are they called that?   
      
   I'm afraid I associate 'modern' mainly with 20th century.  Before that   
   would be 'Victorian', then the various centuries themselves....   
      
      
      
   Bree   
      
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