عنوان

"Evil people" :

(Number (ISBN

0813928060

(Number (ISBN

0813928389

(Number (ISBN

9780813928067

(Number (ISBN

9780813928388

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b523312

Title Proper

"Evil people" :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier /

First Statement of Responsibility

Johannes Dillinger ; translated by Laura Stokes

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Charlottesville :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Virginia Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

298 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Series Title

Studies in early modern German history

Text of Note

"Originally published in German as "Böse Leute." Hexenverfolgungen in Schwäbisch-Österreich und Kurtrier im Vergleich, c1999"--T.p. verso

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-289) and index

Text of Note

Authority and liberties for the country and the people : administration, legal, and social circumstances -- Golden goblets and cows' hooves -- If she's not a witch yet, she will certainly become one -- There goes the werewolf : we thought he had been caught already -- Let no one accuse us of negligence -- A slippery and obscure business -- Chronology and quantitative analysis of the persecutions

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Text of Note

"Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions - Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier - he provides a nuanced explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed over 1,300 lives in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. Dillinger finds that, far from representing the centralizing aggression of emerging early states against local cultures, witch hunts were almost always driven by members of the middling and lower classes in cities and villages, and they were stopped only when early modern states acquired the power to control their localities." "Situating his study in the context of a pervasive magical worldview that embraced both orthodox Christianity and folk belief, Dillinger shows that, in some cases, witch trials themselves were used as magical instruments, designed to avert threats of impending divine wrath. "Evil People" describes a two-century evolution in which witch hunters who liberally bestowed the label "evil people" on others turned into modern images of evil themselves."--BOOK JACKET

General Material Designation

Böse Leute.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Witch hunting-- Germany-- Swabia-- History

Witch hunting-- Germany-- Trier-- History

Witchcraft-- Germany-- Swabia-- History

Witchcraft-- Germany-- Trier-- History

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Dillinger, Johannes

Date of Transaction

20121115000000.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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