Witches -A Kings Obsession -by Steven Veerapen
King James VI / I and Witchcraft Steven Veerapen is a Scottish academic, historian, and successful historical novel writer, focusing largely on the 16th century and early 17th century. His latest book is 'Witches-A king's Obsession' , published by Birlinn, 2025 in hardback. Steven Veerapen is certainly well qualified to write about the Jacobean era : His previous works include biographies of James VI & I, 'The Wisest Fool (2023) and his wife Anna of Denmark ' Queen in Two Kingdoms (2022) . There is a helpful background in this book showing how witchcraft and magic were viewed in past centuries. A turning point was the publication and circulation of the Witch hunting manual Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer (1487), aided by the rise of the printing press...