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  1. Witchcraft, demonology, and confession in early modern France
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY

    "Denounced by neighbors and scrutinized by demonologists, the early modern French witch also confessed, self-identified as a witch and as the author of horrific deeds. What led her to this point? Despair, solitude, perhaps even physical pain, but... mehr

    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
    2016/1033
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 937834
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    PH 34-3570
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    "Denounced by neighbors and scrutinized by demonologists, the early modern French witch also confessed, self-identified as a witch and as the author of horrific deeds. What led her to this point? Despair, solitude, perhaps even physical pain, but most decisively, demonology's two-pronged prosecutorial and truth-seeking confessional apparatus. This book examines the systematic and well-oiled machinery that served to extract, interpret, and disseminate witches' confessions in early modern France. For the demonologist, confession was the only way to find out the truth about the clandestine activities of witches. For the witch, however, trial confessions opened new horizons of selfhood. In this book, Virginia Krause unravels the threads that wove together the demonologist's will to know and the witch's subjectivity. By examining textual and visual evidence, Krause shows how confession not only generated demonological theory but also brought forth a specific kind of self, which we now recognize as the modern subject"--

     

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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781107074408
    RVK Klassifikation: NO 1300
    Schlagworte: Witchcraft; Witchcraft; Demonology; Demonology; Trials (Witchcraft); Trials (Witchcraft); Confession; Confession
    Umfang: xi, 191 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 173-183

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