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The Oxford Illustrated Histories are a series of single-volume history books written by experts and published by the Oxford University Press. [1] According to Hew Strachan , its intended readership is the 'intelligent general reader' rather than the research student.
Owen Davies (born 1969) is a British historian who specialises in the history of magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine. [1] He is currently Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire [ 2 ] and has been described as Britain's "foremost academic expert on the history of magic".
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft was published on 14 September 1830, in time to take full advantage of the Christmas trade. From November 1830 copies were sold extra-illustrated with twelve engravings by George Cruikshank. Sales of the first edition were brisk enough to necessitate a second edition, published on 24 January 1831.
Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt is a historical study of the beliefs regarding European witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, with particular reference to the development of the witches' sabbat and its influence on the witch trials in the Early Modern period.
Weyer's works include medical and moral works as well as his more famous critiques of magic and witchcraft: De Praestigiis Daemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis ('On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons'), 1563. Pseudomonarchia Daemonum ('The False Kingdom of the Demons'), an appendix to De Praestigiis Daemonum, 1577.
Dictionnaire Infernal. The Dictionnaire Infernal (English: "Infernal Dictionary") is a book on demonology, describing demons organised in hierarchies.It was written by Jacques Collin de Plancy and first published in 1818.
The book was the result of research carried out by Yeates at Oxford University as part of a D.Phil. project from 2001 to 2005. The supervisors of the study were Prof. Martin Henig and Prof. Barry Cunliffe, and the assessors Dr. Ray Howell and Prof. Chris Gosden.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain (1984, many rev eds down to 2009, almost lm.copies sold) Labour People (1987, rev ed 1992) (ed.) The Oxford History of Britain (1987, rev ed 2010) The Red Dragon and the Red Flag (1989) (ed.) The Oxford Mini History of Britain (1989, in 5 vols.) Britain and Europe (1995)