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Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany

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Recent witchcraft historiography, particularly where it concerns the gender of the witch-suspect, has been dominated by theories of social conflict in which ordinary people colluded in the persecution of the witch sect. The reconstruction of the Eichstätt persecutions (1590-1631) in this book shows that many witchcraft episodes were imposed exclusively ‘from above’ as part of a programme of Catholic reform. The high proportion of female suspects in these cases resulted from the persecutors’ demonology and their interrogation procedures. The confession narratives forced from the suspects reveal a socially integrated, if gendered, community rather than one in crisis. The book is a reminder that an overemphasis on one interpretation cannot adequately account for the many contexts in which witchcraft episodes occurred.

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Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume:

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: Brill., 2007

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316 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9789047420552

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computer

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online resource

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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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Jonathan B. Durrant

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https://brill.com/display/title/12801

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