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| ISBN: | 9789047420552
9047420551
9789004160934
9004160930
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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In English.
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| Summary: | Using the example of Eichstatt, this book challenges 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 Eichstatt 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."--Jacket
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| Other form: | Print version: Durrant, Jonathan B. (Jonathan Bryan). Witchcraft, gender, and society in early modern Germany. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9789004160934 9004160930
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| Standard no.: | 10.1163/ej.9789004160934.i-288
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