Magic, Witches, and Prosecution

Authors

  • Arne Duncker Universität Hannover, Juristische Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Zivilrecht und Rechtsgeschichte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/643

Keywords:

Hexen, Mittelalter, Neuzeit, Recht, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Johannes Dillinger attempts to describe the development of the belief in magic and witches from the Middle Ages to today in his book published in the Campus Verlag series “Introductions to History.” Witch persecutions and prosecutions of the Early Modern period and their preconditions take up more than half of the overall study. In particular, the book provides an introduction to the newer and newest secondary literature and to those issues discussed in this literature. One section also approaches the persecution of witches as the persecution of women and searches for the reasons behind the high percentage of women among the persecuted.

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Published

2008-07-01

Issue

No. 25 (2008): Recht II

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2008 Arne Duncker

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