$35.00 In Demon Lovers, Stephens offers a fascinating study of what motivated the violent fervor of the European witchcraft âtheoristsâ from 1400 to 1700. By Walter Stephens (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002) 451 pp. Jonathan Karp State University of New York, Binghamton Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief.

But such thematic lopsidedness is a small price to pay for a work that effectively maps out a major historical topic for the Âªrst time. Journal of Interdisciplinary History MIT Press Ĥ46 | MA R L EN E T RO M P the Jewish Enlightenment) Âªnds no denouement comparable to the portion of the book that deals with philanthropy and associations. If one could obtain certain proof of demons, witches, and their activities in a world that doubted their reality, then one could be equally assured of the presence of angels, divine intervention, the Bibleâthe very foundations of These theorists, churchmen and philosophers, were obsessed with the idea of demonic copulation with humans (and other gruesome activities, like the consumption of broth made from murdered, unbaptized infants the bleeding and wailing of the eucharistic host and ostensibly stolen penises) to prove essentially one thingâthe real and veriÂªable existence of a spirit world.

Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of BeliefĤ46 | MA R L EN E T RO M P the Jewish Enlightenment) Âªnds no denouement comparable to the portion of the book that deals with philanthropy and associations.

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