Download or read book Godly Zeal and Furious Rage (RLE Witchcraft) written by Geoffrey Robert Quaife and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs. This work offers a conspectus of historical work on witchcraft in Europe, and shows how many trends converged to form the figure of the witch, and varied from one part of Europe to another.