Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany

Jonathan B. Durrant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2007
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-16093-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Jonathan Durrant, Ph.D. (2002) in History, University of London, is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Glamorgan. He has published on the witch persecutions and is editor of the Witchcraft Bibliography Project Online.

List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I
1. Witch-hunting in Eichstätt
2. The Witches

PART II
3. Friends and Enemies
4. Food and Drink
5. Sex
6. Health
7. The Abuse of Authority

Conclusion

Appendix 1. The Interrogatory of 1617
Appendix 2. Occupations of Suspected Witches or their Households

Bibliography
Index

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; Vol.124
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	610 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	90-04-16093-0 / 9004160930
ISBN-13	978-90-04-16093-4 / 9789004160934
Zustand	Neuware