Defining Dominion
The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization)
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Author
Publication
1996-02-01 - University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Word Count
62,000 words, Guess
Page Count
248 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7633811M
- ISBN-139780472106196
- ISBN-100472106198
- OCLC Control Number32350000
- OCLC Control Numberdefiningdominion0000scho
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95013470
- LibraryThing414255
- Goodreads3893873
Classifications
- LCCBF1582 .S36 1995
Description
How did magic influence people's lives and thought in early modern Europe? How did woman come to be associated with magic and witchcraft and how did this affect her place in society? In this intriguing volume, Gerhild Scholz Williams explores the role of magic in France and Germany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She guides the reader through a variety of texts - many of them popular and influential in their day - and tells the story of how women were thrust into the center of a destructive discussion lasting several hundred years. This comprehensive study looks at magic as an intellectual and cultural language; as an attempt to explain the world, and as a means to control women whose propensity for satanic dalliance threatened not just their own souls but the health of the larger society. It will interest a wide variety of scholars and students of early modern culture, French and German literature, and gender and feminist studies.
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- Defining Dominion: The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization)
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