Regional Approach

Historians:

- Simon Lemieux (lots of regional case studies in '...Bloodbath of the Innocents'

- Robin Briggs (and 'from below')

- Wolfgang Behringer

- Brian Levack (reached a structural interpretation of the hunts by adopting a regional approach)

- Alisand Rowlands

- Gustav Henningsen

- Eva Pocs

Advantages:

- debunks the myth of a 'typical' witch-hunt

- regional explanations do not impose a false "homogeneity on the past"

- regional studies considered the only way the Annales could reach their total explanations

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