E. William Monter

Studies in Genevan Government (1536-1605)

Stuart Clark

Bengt Ankarloo

Each volume in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Most European prosecutions for the crime of witchcraft occurred between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the peak coming in the hundred years after 1560. This volume brings together the large amount of recent scholarship on witchcraft of this period and provides a novel analysis of the trials by considering the legal systems involved. Witch hunts, methods of torture, and the scientific interest in magic spells and demonology as an intellectual pursuit are also covered in detail.

The Period of the Witch Trials

Analyse: Procès de sorcellerie à Genève, dans le Jura, le Canton de Neuchâtel et le Pays de Vaud.

The Borderlands During the Reformation

Witchcraft in France and Switzerland

European Witchcraft

For over four hundred years, the city of Geneva has been important in Western history. The character of this city--steady, serious, erudite, clannish, and proud--has remained virtually unchanged since Calvin's time, the heroic age when she first became famous. Professor Monter relates the "success story" of this fascinating city through a fresh synthesis of printed and archival sources. In the sixteenth century, Geneva succeeded in winning and maintaining her independence, a feat unique in Reformation Europe. Into this special environment came Calvin--and his triumph was the result of a brilliant mind and an undeviating will being placed in the midst of the crude and confused surroundings of a revolutionary commune. Professor Monter explores the components of Geneva's and Calvin's fame in a number of ways. First, he outlines the history of the city from the early sixteenth century to Calvin's death in 1564, showing the tumultuous environment of the city where Calvin worked and the means by which local opposition to Calvin dissolved. He next describes the principal institutions and social groups of Calvin's Geneva: the established church, the civil government, and the foreign refugee communities. Finally, he assesses Calvin's legacy to Geneva and discusses the workings of Calvinism after its founder's death. As a whole, Calvin's Geneva is a revealing portrait of a major city and an acute analysis of its effect on one of the most important men in the sixteenth century.

Calvin’s Geneva

SituÃ© aux frontiÃ¨res linguistique et politique entre la France et le Saint-Empire, l'Ã©tat tampon de la Lorraine a maintenu une neutralitÃ© prÃ©caire depuis la dÃ©faite de Charles le tÃ©mÃ©raire en 1477 jusqu'Ã la Guerre de Trente Ans. EntravÃ©e par le cardinal de Richelieu pendant les annÃ©es 1630, l'autonomie politique de la Lorraine ne fut perdue qu'un siÃ¨cle plus tard et le dernier duc de Lorraine se rÃ©fugia chez les Habsbourg. A Bewitched Duchy est la premiÃ¨re histoire de Lorraine en langue anglaise.

Lorraine and Its Dukes, 1477-1736

A Bewitched Duchy

Calvin's Geneva

A significant reappraisal of the Spanish Inquisition, focusing on the lands beyond Castile.

E. William Monter

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