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An antipodean witch craze. (Politics).
... in times of fear men do not think clearly: they retreat into fixed positions, fixed prejudices.
--Hugh Trevor-Roper
A MODERN witch craze--our very own, grown in the antipodes, with paedophilia as its crowning subject. But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions. Ironically, that particular creed was battled by Dr Peter Hollingworth in 2000 when the Queensland government struck the crime of witchcraft off the statute books. Dr Hollingworth chided the Beattie government, speaking of alienation and the sluggishness of the Queensland government in consulting church groups. Now, we have a ...
- Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Goodare, Julian March 22, 2006 700+ words
Witch Craze: Terror and...Germany, by Lyndal Roper. New Haven...latter. Lyndal Roper's long-awaited...torturers. The title Witch Craze is perhaps excessive...authorities. Witch Craze offers little...territories Professor Roper has studied...
- Witch Craze Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: History Today Maxwell-Stuart, P.G. May 1, 2005 700+ words
Witch Craze Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany Lyndal Roper Yale University Press xiv + 362...ISBN 0-300. 10335.2 LYNDAL ROPER IS WELL KNOWN For her work on...different from ourselves, and Roper's other major achievement is...
- Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review March 1, 2005 700+ words
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. Lyndal Roper. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00...years against 'apparently harmless old women'. Prof. Roper confines her study to four areas of Southern Germany...
- Theorizing the mysteries' end in England, the artificial demonic, and the...
- Magazine article from: Criticism Paxon, James J. September 22, 1997 700+ words
...attributed to the Reformation: the savage witch-craze in which thousands of innocent or harmless...tortured, and burned alive. The English witch-craze was somewhat less severe than the continental...representation; Reformation [right arrow] witch-craze. Such a bifurcation in ...
- Witch craze.(Language Corner)
- Magazine article from: Swiss News Bucher, Marcel March 1, 2004 700+ words
...incomprehensible nonsense. These supposed 'witches' were condemned by Pope Innocent VIII in his Bull of 1484, which started the witch craze in Europe, estimated to have caused the death (mostly a horrible one) of up to 9 million women from the 15th to the 18th...
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre. .(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: History Today Sharpe, Kevin April 1, 2003 700+ words
...boldness that enabled Trevor-Roper to write so perceptively...lectures and talks, Trevor-Roper brilliantly illuminated the...seventeenth century, the European witch craze. Moving with ease across a...countries and languages, Trevor-Roper would dazzlingly perform that...
- Roper Industries, Inc.
- Reference information from: International Directory of Company Histories January 1, 2003 700+ words
Roper Industries, Inc. 160 Ben Burton Road Bogart...and analytical instrumentation industries, Roper Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes...generation industries. In the early 2000s, Roper Industries operated in three business segments...
- ROPER SAW OPINION RESEARCH BECOME INDUSTRY POLLSTER FAVORS THE DOOR-TO-DOOR...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 24, 1994 700+ words
...Associated Press NEW YORK When Burns W. Roper started his job asking people their opinions...taker eventually became chairman of the Roper Organization. By the time he began his...merged with another company and was renamed Roper Starch Worldwide. But this tidy summary...
