RICHARD M. GOLDEN is professor of history and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of North Texas. He is author of "The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Cures and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662 "(1981); editor of "The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina "(1988); and editor of "Church, State, and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France" (1982). He coedited, with Thomas Kuehn, "Western Societies: Primary Sources in Social History" (1993). He is currently editing the "Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, "to be published in 2003.