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Description: Imagining the Witch : Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany, Hardcover by Kounine, Laura, ISBN 019879908X, ISBN-13 9780198799085, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 persons 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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Book Title: Imagining the Witch : Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Mod

Number of Pages: 216 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Imagining the Witch : Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Item Height: 0.9 in

Subject: Hunting, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Europe / General

Publication Year: 2019

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 21.6 Oz

Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Sports & Recreation, History

Item Length: 9.3 in

Author: Laura Kounine

Item Width: 6.5 in

Series: Emotions in History Ser.

Format: Hardcover