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by viach 2497 days ago
1573 mentioned in article is not Middle Ages, just saying.
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It’s not unimportant. The mistake is (in time) like “what it was to be a computer scientist in WWI”. Like... what?
Bamberg was not exactly on the cutting edge of the Renaissance, so executions in 1573 might have been about the same as in the middle ages. Bamberg was burning witches into the 1600s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberg_witch_trials

Witch trials were a post-medieval phenomenon.
The burning of witches has little to do with Medieval times: they had the printing press in Bamberg around 1457... One of the very first places to have one.