Marion Gibson is Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of seven academic books on witches in history and literature: Reading Witchcraft; Possession, Puritanism, and Print; Witchcraft Myths in American Culture; Imagining the Pagan Past; Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft; Witchcraft: The Basics and, with Jo Esra, Shakespeare’s Demonology. Marion has also edited five books for publishers such as Routledge and Ashgate, published around twenty chapters and articles, and she is General Editor of the series Elements in Magic for Cambridge University Press. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials is her most recent work.
Gibson muestra cómo la idea demonológica de la bruja se originó, creció y fue cambiando con el tiempo, pero no murió. Un libro brillante y perturbador sobre una historia que es a la vez antigua y moderna.
Los juicios de brujas nos parecen hoy arcaicos y descabellados, el mal recuerdo...
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