Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
Jonathan B. Durrant, Andrew Colin Gow.
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Using the example of Eichstätt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by persecution did not collude in its escalation.