How long does it take to read Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700?
Alan Charles Kors, Edward Peters
Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700 by Alan Charles Kors, Edward Peters takes about 8 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 451 pages, about 124,025 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Spanning the period from 400 to 1700, the second edition of Witchcraft in Europe assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first, many newly translated, along with new illustrations that trace the development of witch-beliefs from late Mediterranean antiquity through the Enlightenment. Trial records, inquisitors' reports, eyewitness statements, and witches' confessions, along with striking contemporary illustrations depicting the career of the Devil and his works, testify to the hundreds of years of terror that enslaved an entire continent. homas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and other thinkers are quoted at length in order to determine the intellectual, perceptual, and legal processes by which "folklore" was transformed into systematic demonology and persecution. Together with explanatory notes, introductory essays -- which have been revised to reflect current research -- and a new bibliography, the documents gathered in
Subjects: Sources, Witchcraft, History, Europe, Witchcraft, europe, Hekserij
