This book will be a new addition to our "Problems in Civilisation" (PEC) series. Books in this series feature secondary sources essays organised around specific debates in European history. Documents will feature both traditional and current scholarship and are organised around the major controversies and interpretations of the history of witchcraft, including intellectual foundations and demonology; accusations, trials and panics and gender and witchcraft. These topics are all discussed within the political, social and economic contexts of early modern Europe.