{"product_id":"9781350441507-the-basque-witch-hunt-a-secret-history","title":"Machielsen Dr Jan (Cardiff University Uk) - The Basque Witch - Hunt A Secret History - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction a Basque - speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there. Witnesses many of them children described lurid tales of cannibalism vampirism and demonic sex. One of the judges Pierre de Lancre published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld. With other accounts seemingly destroyed this witch - hunt France's largest has always been seen through de Lancre's eyes. The narrative re - told over the centuries is that of a witch - hunt caused by a bigoted outsider. Newly discovered evidence paints a very different still darker picture revealing a secret history underneath de Lancre's well - known tale. Far from an outside imposition witchcraft was a home - grown problem. Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources. The Basque Witch - Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider; he was a local partisan married into the Basque nobility. Living at the Franco - Spanish border the Basques were victims of geography. Geo - politics caused a local conflict which made the witch - hunt inevitable. The same forces eventually sent thousands of religious refugees from Spain to France where they in turn became new objects of popular fear and anger. The Basque witch - hunt is justly infamous. This book shows that almost everything historians thought they knew about it is wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Basque Witch - Hunt A Secret History\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Machielsen Dr Jan (Cardiff University Uk)\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781350441507\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 344 Pages, 3 Maps\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 10\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Witchcraft","brand":"Machielsen Dr Jan (Cardiff University Uk)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51333568626993,"sku":"IN-G-9781350441507","price":26.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781350441507.jpg?v=1746892519","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781350441507-the-basque-witch-hunt-a-secret-history","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}