The Crime of Crimes

Pearl (history, U. of Toronto) challenges the vision of the witch hunts as tremendously violent by looking at the situation in France, where he finds relatively few executions. He explains that a zealous Catholic faction characterized Protestants as in league with the devil and sought political and legal measures to exterminate them, but that the courts were dominated by moderate Catholics who thought very differently and refused to go along. Canadian card order number: C98- 930430-2. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR