Witch craze: terror and fantasy in baroque Germany
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Main Author: Roper, Lyndal (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press c2004
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-345) and index
The Baroque landscape -- Interrogation and torture -- Cannibalism -- Sex with the devil -- Sabbaths -- Fertility -- Crones -- Family revenge -- Godless children -- A witch in the age of enlightenment
"In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death ... Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women who were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterisation of elderly women in western culture"--Dust jacket
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 362 p.)
ISBN:0300103352
0300119836
030017652X
9780300103359
9780300119831
9780300176520

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