A New History of Magic

I've been reading Michael D. Bailey's Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History From Antiquity to the Present (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), available in both hardcover and paperback. It's a handy little volume, well written, with a great bibliography (I love bibliographies). Dr. Bailey, who's at Iowa State University, is also the author of The Disenchantment of Magic, 111 American Historical Review 383 (April 2006) and The Feminization of Magic and the Emerging Idea of the Female Witch in the Late Middle Ages, in volume 19 of Essays in Medieval Studies pp. 120-134 (2002). He does discuss legal and political as well as social developments. Essential for the law and magic bookshelf.