Imagining the witch : emotions, gender, and selfhood in early modern Germany / Laura Kounine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kounine, Laura, 1985- author.

Series:

Emotions in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Witchcraft)--Germany--Württemberg--History.

Trials (Witchcraft).

Witch hunting--Germany--Württemberg--History.

Witch hunting.

Witches--Europe--Public opinion--History.

Witches.

Public opinion.

History.

Europe.

Germany--Württemberg.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 279 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 Wurttemberg 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.

Contents:

Being on trial : interrogating mind and body

Languages of defence

Confession, conscience, and selfhood on trial

Gender and emotions in the visual and intellectual imagination

Appendix of trials.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.

ISBN:

9780198799085

019879908X

OCLC:

1080082347