Obtain European Witch Trials: Their Foundations In Popular And Learned Culture, 1300-1500 Written By Richard Kieckhefer Shown In Document

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This was fine, I read it for my history class and I'm writing a book report on it.
There were some parts that were very interesting, like when he went into specific case and what people were accused of, both others were a bit dull.
I really thought Kieckhefer's methodology was questionable, and his intense desire to classify the types of witchcraft and types of sources into clean categories was just plain troubling.
I think retrospective distinctions like that are potentially useful tools for modern conceptualizations, but for the most part, I think they oversimplify things.
It provided an interesting perspective on the witch trials, but I just couldn't get all of the way on board, Kieckhefer might be on to something, but he doesn't have the whole story, John Evans Professor of Religious Studies, Research interests focus mainly on the late Middle Ages,

with special interest in church architecture and in the history of witchcraft and magic.
Currently writing books on the mystical presence of Christ in the late Middle Ages an exploration of the relationship between ordinary and extraordinary piety, between shared religious culture and exceptional religious experience and late medieval church building an inquiry into the collaboration and conflict among different interest groups in the creation of monuments meant to serve and symbolize communal interests.
Books include European Witch Trials Routledge Kegan Paul,Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germanyi Pennsylvania,, Un "John Evans Professor of Religious Studies.
Research interests focus mainly on the late Middle Ages, with special interest in church architecture and in the history of witchcraft and magic.
Currently writing books on "the mystical presence of Christ" in the late Middle Ages an exploration of the relationship between ordinary and extraordinary piety, between shared religious culture and exceptional religious experience and late medieval church building an inquiry into the collaboration and conflict among different interest groups in the creation of monuments meant to serve and symbolize communal interests.
Books include European Witch Trials Routledge Kegan Paul,Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germanyi Pennsylvania,, Unquiet Souls Chicago,, Magic in the Middle Ages Cambridge,,Forbidden Rites Sutton and Penn State,, and Theology in StoneOxford,.
A theme underlying much of his research is the way in which communities create and sustain a sense of shared culture in the face of difference, dissention, and dispute.
" sitelink "In addition to the DAAD, his research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, " sitelink sitelink.