Witch hunting was early modern, not medieval.

1486 · 1560 · 1630 · apart: 144 years

It peaked around 1560–1630, the age of Shakespeare, Galileo and Kepler, and the Malleus Maleficarum was printed after Gutenberg.

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• Malleus Maleficarum1486 · Speyer. Heinrich Kramer's treatise was printed in Speyer in 1486, three decades after Gutenberg, and ran through dozens of editions. The largest witch hunts came later still, between about 1560 and 1630.

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