What Is the Process of Writing a History?

All good history, i think, requires a degree of imagination that stop short of fiction. The book is written as fictive in the sense that it borrows some of the narrative strategies that novelists might use - but it doesn't invent things. If you want to describe a situation plausibly, truthfully, then sometimes you can triangulate with other sourcers that will give you a sense of what definitely would have been happening in that sort of situation. You need to know everything about this world in order to see how an accusation of witchcraft arises from their material world. I think if witchcraft accusations were absolutely endemic, and they went on all the time, constantly, constantly throughout early modern