Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews: The Construction of the Witch in Early Modern Germany
by Reinharde Brauner and Rudolf Brauner
University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
Paper: 978-1-55849-297-4 | eISBN: 978-1-68575-057-2 (PDF)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In fifteenth-century Germany, women were singled out as witches for the first time in history; this book explores why. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections among 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.
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