The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern W¿rttemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in which ordinary men and women fought for their life to avoid the stake.
The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern W¿rttemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in which ordinary men and women fought for their life to avoid the stake.
Laura Kounine is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex, and was previously a research fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe (2015), and Emotions in the History of Witchcraft (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Being on Trial: Interrogating Mind and Body 2: Languages of Defence 3: Confession, Conscience, and Selfhood on Trial 4: Gender and Emotions in the Visual and Intellectual Imagination Conclusion Appendix
Introduction 1: Being on Trial: Interrogating Mind and Body 2: Languages of Defence 3: Confession, Conscience, and Selfhood on Trial 4: Gender and Emotions in the Visual and Intellectual Imagination Conclusion Appendix
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