Resumen de Enchanted Europe: : superstition, reason, & religion 1250-1750
[...]reginald Scot, in his Discoverie of Witchcraft, lampooned catho- lic practices as essentially ineffective occult rites. cameron also points out that the contrasting worldviews, with their focus on differences rather than common ground, led to physical atrocities like the witchcraft trials of mainland europe and the british isles. other than an occasional brush against the political side of witchcraft, like the trials, cam- eron does not spend much time on the subject of witches. other topics receive generally short shrift as well, such as divination-although he does include chapters on the pre-modern de- pendence on omens, signs, oracles, and divina- tory aids. examinations of agricultural astrol- ogy and weather forecasting receive a few pages and then disappear behind arguments about the cults of St. Anthony and St. Valentinus. he does excuse himself from addressing these top- ics head-on by noting that, in general, they receive more extensive examination from other qualified scholars.
