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Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany - Softcover

Roper, Lyndal

 
9780300119831: Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300119836 ISBN 13: 9780300119831
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches—of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops—and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond.
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 that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lyndal Roper is lecturer in history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300119836
ISBN 13 
9780300119831
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
376
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