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Witch Craze

Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany

By: Lecturer in History Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Lyndal Roper,Lyndal Roper

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Witch Craze

Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany

By: Lecturer in History Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Lyndal Roper,Lyndal Roper

From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches—of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops—and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.

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Yale University Press

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0300103352

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9780300103359

Vienna and Versailles

The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780

By: Jeroen Frans Jozef Duindam

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Vienna and Versailles

The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780

By: Jeroen Frans Jozef Duindam

This book brings vividly to life the courtiers and servants of the imperial court in Vienna and the royal court at Paris-Versailles. Drawing on a wealth of material masterfully set in a comparative context, the book makes a unique contribution to the field of court studies. Staff, numbers, costs and hierarchies; daily routines and ceremonies; court favourites and the nature of rulership; the integrative and centripetal forces of the central courtly establishment: all are seen in a long-term, comparative perspective that highlights both the similarities and the distinctiveness of developments in France and the Habsburg lands. In the process, most conventional views of each court - and of court life in general - are challenged, and an alternative interpretation emerges. Finally, by relocating the household in the heart of the early modern state, Vienna and Versailles forces us to rethink the process of statebuilding and the notion of 'absolutism'.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521822629

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9780521822626