WITCH TRIALS with Professor Alison Rowlands

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Alison Rowlands is a Professor of European history at the University of Essex researching witchcraft of the early modern period in central Europe.

We talk about medieval beliefs in the supernatural, witch trials, the Inquisition, torture, the role of gender in accusations of witchcraft, as well as witchcraft in popular culture.

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historywitchcraftwitchdark