Utopia and More: Thomas More, de Nederlanden en de utopische traditie. Dirk Sacré, Erik De Bom, Demmy Verbeke, and Gilbert Tournoy, eds. Exh. Cat. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 41. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016. xi + 454 pp. €49.50.
and the occupants of the social and political fringes. This book bursts with a wealth of case studies and microhistories that will no doubt assist witchcraft scholars, even if their research does not pivot around politics. Future work may broaden the study of politics to legislative history, which is absent from this book. Elmer does not open his discussion with the short-lived 1542 Henrician antiwitchcraft act, nor does it devote attention to the replacement of the 1563 by the more severe 1604 Jacobean statute. Future research may spur further study into the influence of socioeconomic status and professional affiliation on differences between Puritan writers. Overall, this is a valuable and impressive contribution to current scholarship.