Witch Craze
Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper...
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper exploration of the psychology of witch-hunting in modern culture.
"(A) brilliant piece of investigative history."--"The Guardian
""This ambitious and subtle book is testament not only to Roper's skill in excavating stories from the German archives, but also to her imagination and determination in reading between the lines of examinations and confessions. . . . Compelling, courageous and inspirational."--Malcolm Gaskill, "Journal of the Historical Association"
Autoren-Porträt von Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper, geb. 1956, lehrt als Professorin für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit am Balliol College der Universität Oxford.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lyndal Roper
- 2006, 376 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Yale University Press
- ISBN-10: 0300119836
- ISBN-13: 9780300119831
Sprache:
Englisch
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"This is a major work that pushes the history of witchcraft in new directions and offers remarkable and sometimes startling new insights. Lyndal Roper breaks new ground in her remarkable, subtle analysis of the interpersonal relations among those caught up in fantasies of witchcraft."-H. C. Erik Midelfort, author of A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
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