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Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews: The Construction of the Witch in Early Modern Germany
Reinharde Brauner
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Paperback. An exploration of why women were singled out as witches in 15th-century in Germany. It examines the connections between three central developments at this time: a shift in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of femininity; and the witch hunts that were sweeping across Europe. Num Pages: 184 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRQX5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
An exploration of why women were singled out as witches in 15th-century in Germany. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections between three central developments in early modern Germany: a shift in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of femininity; and the witch hunts that swept across Europe from 1435 to 1750. In mediaeval discourse on witchcraft, Brauner argues, men and women were assumed to become witches in roughly equal numbers. But starting with the notorious ""Malleus Maleficarum"" (1487), witchcraft was reinterpreted as a gender-specific crime: its authors argued contentiously that most witches were women and linked ... Read more
An exploration of why women were singled out as witches in 15th-century in Germany. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections between three central developments in early modern Germany: a shift in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of femininity; and the witch hunts that swept across Europe from 1435 to 1750. In mediaeval discourse on witchcraft, Brauner argues, men and women were assumed to become witches in roughly equal numbers. But starting with the notorious ""Malleus Maleficarum"" (1487), witchcraft was reinterpreted as a gender-specific crime: its authors argued contentiously that most witches were women and linked ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558492974
SKU
V9781558492974
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About Reinharde Brauner
Until her accidental death in 1992, SIGRID BRAUNER was assistant professor of German literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her book was edited for publication by her friend ROBERT H. BROWN, author of Nature's Hidden Terror: Violent Nature Imagery in Eighteenth-Century Germany.
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