Lyndal Roper
Daniel Snowman meets the historian of witches and witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.
Religious fundamentalism, mass hysteria, mysterious poisonings, coded messages, the subjugation of women, the demonisation and slaughter of outcasts and a struggle for hearts and minds between opposing ideologies – and that’s just seventeenth-century Augsburg! But it would not be surprising if Lyndal Roper’s subject matter also suggested messages for our own troubled times.
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