Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
ISBN: 9789047420552
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brill
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History;

Using the example of Eichstätt, 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.


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