A small book that dismantles much against truth

Marion Sigault shows us that it was not during the Middle Ages, but especially during the Renaissance period 1550-1650 that the witch hunt took place, often with secular courts and often outside the jurisdiction of the church. It analyzes why this stubborn cliché.

Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court that pursued heretics and non-witches.

At the peak of this period, it was especially in the country that it took place, often on charges of demon possession, causing mass hysteria scapegoats research to all kinds of evil (bad harvests, epidemics, etc. ..) and homicidal fury. And it is the secular courts that sent the condemned to the stake by the hundreds.

So excellent little book of a collection made by an excellent historian.