Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany - (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

J. B. Durrant

Brill

2007

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-10: 9004160930

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.