Witch craze
Subtitle: terror and fantasy in baroque Germany
By: Lyndal Roper.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.; Witchcraft -- Germany -- History -- 17th century.; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Germany.
Description: "In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death ... 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 who were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterisation of elderly women in western culture"--dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-345) and index.