The appearance of witchcraft : print and visual culture in sixteenth-century Europe / Charles Zika.

London : Routledge, [2007], ©2007.

xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-289) and index.

Fashioning a new visual language for witchcraft -- The transformation of sorcery and magic in the fifteenth century -- Witches' cauldrons and women's bodies -- Wild riders, popular folklore and moral disorder -- Transformation, death and sexuality in the classical world -- A biblical necromancer and two Christian saints -- Reporting the news and reading the signs -- On the margins of Christian Europe.