The damned art : essays in the literature of witchcraft / edited by Sydney Anglo.

Contents: Evident authority and authoritative evidence : The malleus maleficarum / Sydney Anglo -- Witchcraft and magic in Renaissance Italy : Gianfrancesco Pico and his Strix / Peter Burke -- Johann Weyer's De praestigiis daemonum : unsystematic psychopathology / Christopher Baxter -- Jean Bodin's De la demonomanie des sorciers : the logic of persecution / Christopher Baxter -- Reginald Scot's Discoverie of witchcraft : scepticism and Sadduceeism / Sydney Anglo -- A Tudor anthropologist : George Gifford's Discourse and dialogue / Alan Macfarlane -- King James's Daemonologie : witchcraft and kingship / Stuart Clark -- Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons : the sabbat sensationalised / Margaret M. McGown -- Cotton Mather's Wonders of the invisible world : some metamorphoses of Salem witchcraft / M. Wynn Thomas -- Two late Scottish witchcraft tracts : Witch/craft proven and The tryal of witchcraft / Christina Larner -- Epilogue : The desiderata of disbelief / Sydney Anglo.