Witchcraft, Gender, and Society in Early Modern Germany
Title | Witchcraft, Gender, and Society in Early Modern Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Bryan Durrant |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004160930 |
Using the example of Eichstatt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by persecution did not collude in its escalation.
Witchcraft in Early Modern Germany
Title | Witchcraft in Early Modern Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Sophie Günzel |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2007-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3638726738 |
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: English Grade:58% von 70%, University of Nottingham (School of History), course: Hauptseminar: Gender and Society in Early Modern Europe, language: English, abstract: 'Witch- hunting is seen as something pathological, a disease infecting like a plague the body of the communities in witch it raged.'1 With these words the historian Bob Scribner described witchcraft and witch-hunts. They are defined as something negative and pathological and it is obviously that witchcraft could easily emerged because of the traditional beliefs rooted in the early modern society of Germany. Witchcraft and witchhunts emerged in this period and made the population susceptible to the carrying out of denunciation and elimination of innocent people. The population had been easily influenced by the authorities like magistrates and their fellow citizens. In the following discussion/passage, witchcraft and witch-hunts concerning the early modern Europe will be less prominent rather than the study about witchcraft and witchhunts in early modern Germany. In particular the main focus will stress on the south of Germany because it was the centre of witchcraft and witch-hunts. In addition to that some examples will be mentioned to show special witchcraft and witch- hunt cases. First it will be examined how the term 'witch' is defined shown in a historical, linguistic and an etymological way. Then the two authors of the Malleus maleficarum2 and their ideas about witches and witchcraft will be mentioned. In the forth chapter the social context shall be examined. In this passage the accused shall be represented and the reasons which led to their accusation. In the last chapter the witch-hunts in early modern Germany shall be represented. It keeps the question in what way the witch-hunts increased during the early modern period and which reasons contributed to their decline. Furthe
Gender in Early Modern German History
Title | Gender in Early Modern German History PDF eBook |
Author | Ulinka Rublack |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2002-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521813983 |
A range of startling case-studies from German society between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany
Title | The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Ulinka Rublack |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198208863 |
A study of the crimes of women in early modern Germany, this text draws on court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarrelling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines.
Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
Title | Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | A. Rowlands |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2009-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230248373 |
Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading scholars of early modern European witchcraft. The gendering of witch persecution and witchcraft belief is explored through original case-studies from England, Scotland, Italy, Germany and France.
Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews
Title | Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews PDF eBook |
Author | Sigrid Brauner |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In fifteenth-century Germany, women were singled out as witches for the first time in history; this book explores why. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections among three central developments in early modern Germany: a shift in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of femininity; and the witch hunts that swept across Europe from 1435 to 1750. Brauner shows that the modern notion of the witch as a willful, conniving, promiscuous woman was first established by German Inquisitors in the Malleus maleficarum (1487). In subsequent works by Martin Luther and the sixteenth-century playwrights Paul Rebhun and Hans Sachs, the witch emerged as the counterpart to the new feminine ideal of the urban housewife. By demonstrating how the binary concepts of "good" housewife and "bad wife" (or witch) were propagated among the educated urban elite who presided over witch trials, Brauner suggests that the witch hunts functioned to discipline women who failed to display the docility and subservience expected of the new urban housewife.
Imagining the Witch
Title | Imagining the Witch PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Kounine |
Publisher | Emotions in History |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2018-08-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019879908X |
The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern Wurttemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in which ordinary men and women fought for their life to avoid the stake.