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“These invaluable cases will be of immense interest to anyone interested in the histories of early modern Spain, the Spanish Inquisition, witchcraft, law, popular culture, and childhood, among other topics. By opening up new perspectives on a famous set of witchcraft cases, Homza’s collection offers new insights into social and familial dynamics that could fuel seemingly ‘irrational’ crazes. This is an outstanding resource for the study of early modern social, family, religious, and legal history.” —Michael Breen, author of Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon “These newly discovered documents in the secular and episcopal records of Pamplona enhance our knowledge of the large witch-hunt in Navarre. They contribute to the scholarly conversation about children’s testimony in witchcraft prosecutions and our knowledge of defamation cases during the early modern period. They also supply new evidence of physical violence in small early modern communities.” —Brian P. Levack, editor of Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America

“These invaluable cases will be of immense interest to anyone interested in the histories of early modern Spain, the Spanish Inquisition, witchcraft, law, popular culture, and childhood, among other topics. By opening up new perspectives on a famous set of witchcraft cases, Homza’s collection offers new insights into social and familial dynamics that could fuel seemingly ‘irrational’ crazes. This is an outstanding resource for the study of early modern social, family, religious, and legal history.” —Michael Breen,author of Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon “These newly discovered documents in the secular and episcopal records of Pamplona enhance our knowledge of the large witch-hunt in Navarre. They contribute to the scholarly conversation about children’s testimony in witchcraft prosecutions and our knowledge of defamation cases during the early modern period. They also supply new evidence of physical violence in small early modern communities.” —Brian P. Levack,editor of Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America

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Lu Ann Homza is Professor of European History at William & Mary. She is the editor of The Spanish Inquisition, 1478–1614: An Anthology of Sources and author of Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance and Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates: Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608–1614, the last also published by Penn State University Press.

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