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The Terror of History: The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe

by Medievalists.net
December 30, 2008

The Terror of History: The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe

Lecture by Teofilo Ruiz

51 minutes

Given at UCLA on February 28, 2007

Professor Ruiz, UCLA department chair and Premio del Rey prize for best book in Spanish history before 1580 for his Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile, was speaker for the UCLA History Alumni Faculty Lecture, cohosted by the UCLA Alumni Association and UCLA Department of History. Ruiz spoke to an audience of more than 80 history department alumni and guests.

In this interview, recorded at Amherst College on Nov. 7, 2011, Professor Ruiz discusses the witch craze of Early Modern Europe, and the merits of the Visiting Scholar Program.

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