FEARLESS WIVES AND FRIGHTENED SHREWS by Sigrid Brauner, Robert H. Brown (Editor), Robert H. Brown ( 9781558492974 )

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Title:

FEARLESS WIVES AND FRIGHTENED SHREWS
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WITCH IN EARLY MODERN GERMANY

By:

Sigrid Brauner, Robert H. Brown (Editor), Robert H. Brown

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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

Pub. date:

19 June, 2001

Pages:

184

Description:

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.

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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.

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