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This article begins with a discussion of the chronology and scale of witchcraft prosecutions in the Rhine–Moselle region. It then covers legal procedures; witchcraft committees, local...

This chapter addresses the primary transformations in Jewish civilization in the early modern era considering primarily the distinct histories of five large sub-communities—those of Italy,...

The separation between the different forms of Protestantism began as early as the Reformation movements in Wittenberg and Zurich. Dissenters emerged who challenged the teachings of Luther...

This chapter argues that, contrary to widespread notions about the Reformation as a period of the Word, the words the Reformers uttered should be considered in their social, cultural, and...

For reasons that range from historians’ lack of interest and political inexpediency of the topic to the lacunae in the sources and missing records, Muslims have been largely absent (and...

Early modern political thought was conducted in several different idioms of politics, which can nevertheless be seen to be in dialogue over a range of key political issues that engaged all...

This chapter reviews the origins of present-day understandings of humanism, the principal intellectual movement of the period 1350 to 1650, as they were shaped by major European thinkers of...

The development of early modern European warfare can be understood by focusing on the successive technological and administrative transformations which shaped the navies of European states....

Though long-distance trade routes had always connected Europe to the broader communities of Africa and Asia, these only become more robust in the late medieval era. The scientific and...

The German lands have long been known as the ‘heartland of the witch craze’. Of the estimated 90,000 individuals prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe, at least 30,000 and possibly as many as...

This article addresses the following questions: Why was the overall majority of those prosecuted for witchcraft in early modern Europe female? Was it because women were linked more readily...