The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials
The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries…
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The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials
Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women's confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial.
The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical
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