Between the Devil and the Host Michael W. Maher Among numerous updates throughout the

Among numerous updates throughout the text

Previously this important text was only accessible in the edition of V

this introduction will appeal to first-time students of Montaigne as well as to seasoned experts and admirers

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and ignites their curiosity about the world around them

Between the Devil and the Host Michael W. Maher Among numerous updates throughout theOutside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighbours to be witches, with tragic results. For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes. Through a close reading