The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley
> Sir Edward Coke, the greatest English lawyer of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean age, defined a witch as "a person who has conference with »
The Enemy Within: A Short History of Witch Hunting, by John Demos
> Witchcraft could mean remarkably different things to different people. And class (or "rank" as the people of the time would have said) was »
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
> It is ironic that the prison itself was a product of concerted efforts by reformers to create a better system of punishment. If the words »
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers, by Barbara Ehrenreich
The establishment of medicine as a profession, requiring university training, made it easy to bar women legally from practice. With few exceptions, the universities were closed »
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara Tuchman
> For all the explanations, the earth and its phenomena were full of mysteries: what happens to fire when it goes out? Why are there different »