The most well-known reason women were burned at the stake is due to accusations of witchcraft. During the late medieval and ...

may be properly considered a late survival of “Medieval witchcraft.” Specifically, two men and eight women members of the cult were convicted of having entered the oratory of a priest ...

The word witch is now associated with malevolent black magic but in medieval Britain white witches or “cunning folk” were an accepted part of village life. These pagan healers were skilled in ...

So how come this image of evil women practising magic - witches - came about? This talk will use feminist approaches to the past to explore medieval changes in ideas about magic, gender ...