As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will reveal the deadly consequences of ‘othering’.
- Reader in Early Modern History, History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
Longer life span, air travel and social media have all changed the modern papacy and challenged cherished Catholic traditions along the way.
It’s facile to claim that only the state, or even only elites, were responsible for executing witches – there is a potential witch-hunter in all of us.
A historian reviews Pablo Agüere’s award-winning Netflix film Akelarre and explains why it is one of the best films around on the early modern witch-hunt.
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