Geoffrey Barton Russell's book “Witchcraft and Witches in the Middle Ages” tries to answer the question of what the phenomenon of witchcraft is. The phenomenon, which for centuries has captured the minds of many people from the ignorant peasant to the sophisticated philosopher, which led to torture and claimed hundreds of thousands of human lives, according to the author, cannot be an illusion or general insanity. To eradicate evil in the modern world, a person must know what forms it took in the past, when people, guided by the Gospel commandments, built a state on bones. Contents: From the publisher Acknowledgments Definition of witchcraft Witchcraft in history Transformation of paganism from 300 to 700 Folk witchcraft and heresy from 700 to 1140 Demonology, Cathar heresy and witchcraft from 1140 to 1230 Demonology Intellectual and folk foundations of witchcraft Witchcraft and heresy, from 1140 to 1230 Antinomianism, scholasticism and the Inquisition from 1230 to 1300 Folk culture Heresy Scholasticism Repression and Inquisition Witches and heresyWitches and rebellion Medieval society, from 1300 to 1360, intellectual and legal assessment of the witchcraftsBonae res and wild leapshacks and witchcraft processes over witnesses, from 1360 to 1427, a witchcraft with witches in the history of witchcraft from 1360 to 1427. not related to other heresiesHeresy and witchcraftFormation of the classical image of the witch, from 1427 to 1486The fight against witchesHeresy and witchcraft in the 15th centuryWitchcraft trials, 1427–1486Pierre Vallin and Mary the healerPolitical trialsWitchcraft and the medieval worldviewNotesBibliographyIndex