Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

The Witch Craze and Misogyny (1x20)

Air date: Jan 01, 2002

A review of the place of women in the West and a partial feminist explanation for the witch craze, followed by an examination of the writing of the Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches") and the role of this late 15th-century text in laying the foundations for the persecution of witches.