The Burning Times: The Fifteenth Century

by Zan Fraser

The fifteenth century of the Age of Pisces was a troubled era. The fourteenth century was decimated by the Black Plague. The old feudal traditions were breaking up. The church reasserted its monopolistic authority, and power struggles broke out between the papacy and the monarchs of Europe. People turned toward things of the spirit to sustain them -- sometimes to private, visionary mysticism, sometimes to charismatic preachers. The pageantry and brutality of the fifteenth century played out against a backdrop of pagan night-goddesses, elves, faeryes, spirits, charms, spells, wizards and magic. And more than anything else, the events of the fifteenth century were influenced by -- and directly affected -- the fortunes of those known as witches.

The Burning Times is part of Zan Fraser's Mystic Arts series, which also includes A Briefe Historie of Wytches , The Horned God of Wytches , The Goddess of Wytches and A Briefe Historie of Magi . This series is an in-depth exploration of how our popular thought about these magical, mystical and mysterious figures evolved through the centuries.

142 pages, Paperback

First published May 7, 2007