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crime and punishment in early modern Germany
cultural history of witch trials
demonology and gender
early modern crime studies
early modern European history
early modern societal fears
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European cultural history
European legal history and witchcraft
European witch hunts
female identity in premodern Europe
female scapegoats
feminist historical analysis
fifteenth century Germany
gender and social roles
gendered myths and folklore
gendered power dynamics
gendered social norms
gendered violence and scapegoating
historical analysis of witchcraft trials
historical anthropology of witchcraft
historical narratives of female oppression
historical sociology of gender
historical studies of misogyny
historical witch persecution
historiography of witch hunts
history of superstition and belief
intersection of gender and power
moral and cultural regulation
patriarchal structures in Europe
religious and legal frameworks
Renaissance European studies
social anxieties and female persecution
social construction of witchcraft
social control of women
social psychology of persecution
social transformation and women's roles
urban femininity in Renaissance Germany
urban gender id
urbanization and female labor
witch hunt case studies
witch trials as social phenomenon
witchcraft accusations
witchcraft and law
witchcraft and societal transformation
women and civic life in Germany
women and moral panic
women in early modern society
women's marginalization in history
women's social mobility and constraint
Product details
- ISBN 9781558492974
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2001
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 the crime of witchcraft to women's voracious sexual appetites. The work raises questions about the genesis of the modern social problems of race, gender and class oppression, and locates their roots in the early modern period.
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.
