Economist Emily Oster has linked the crop failure and economic hardships caused by the Little Ice Age to an increase in these events. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these events that peaked in the 16th and 17th centuries, often in Germany. King James I, who presided over some of these events in North Berwick (“BAIR-ick”), wrote manuals for these events.
ANSWER: witch trials [accept witch hunts; prompt on trials]
[10h] Another manual written for witch trials is the Malleus Maleficarum by Jacob Sprenger and this Dominican Inquisitor, who wrote his manual in retaliation to being ousted from the Diocese of Brixen.
ANSWER: Heinrich Kramer
[10e] To get its anti-sorcery message out, copies of the Malleus Maleficarum were made with the movable type printing press invented by this craftsman from Mainz.
ANSWER: Johannes Gutenberg [or Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg]
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