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Imagining the Witch - Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany (Hardcover)
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Imagining the Witch - Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany (Hardcover)
Series: Emotions in History
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Imagining the Witch explores emotions, gender, and selfhood through
the lens of witch-trials in early modern Germany. Witch-trials were
clearly a gendered phenomenon, but witchcraft was not a uniquely
female crime. While women constituted approximately three quarters
of those tried for witchcraft in the Holy Roman Empire, a
significant minority were men. Witchcraft was also a crime of
unbridled passion: it centred on the notion that one person's
emotions could have tangible and deadly physical consequences. Yet
it is also true that not all suspicions of witchcraft led to a
formal accusation, and not all witch-trials led to the stake.
Indeed, just over half the total number put on trial for witchcraft
in early modern Europe were executed. In order to understand how
early modern people imagined the witch, we must first begin to
understand how people understood themselves and each other; this
can help us to understand how the witch could be a member of the
community, living alongside their accusers, yet inspire such
visceral fear. Through an examination of case studies of
witch-trials that took place in the early modern Lutheran duchy of
Wurttemberg in southwestern Germany, Laura Kounine examines how the
community, church, and the agents of the law sought to identify the
witch, and the ways in which ordinary men and women fought for
their lives in an attempt to avoid the stake. The study further
explores the visual and intellectual imagination of witchcraft in
this period in order to piece together why witchcraft could be
aligned with such strong female stereotypes on the one hand, but
also be imagined as a crime that could be committed by any human,
whether young or old, male or female. By moving beyond stereotypes
of the witch, Imagining the Witch argues that understandings of
what constituted witchcraft and the 'witch' appear far more
contested and unstable than has previously been suggested. It also
suggests new ways of thinking about early modern selfhood which
moves beyond teleological arguments about the development of the
'modern' self. Indeed, it is the trial process itself that created
the conditions for a diverse range of people to reflect on, and
give meaning, to emotions, gender, and the self in early modern
Lutheran Germany.
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