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This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of

Exploring the crime of witchcraft in early modern England, this book focuses on legal questions of proof. As a capital crime - yet one that was uniquely difficu

In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codificat

This volume presents, for the first time, a critical edition of the works of the early modern English physician John Cotta. No mere country doctor, Cotta spoke

A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne pre