Fearless wives and frightened shrews : the construction of the witch in early modern Germany / Sigrid Brauner ; edited with an introduction by Robert H. Brown ; foreword by Sara Lennox.

In fifteenth-century Germany, women were singled out as witches for the first time in history; this book explores why. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections among three central developments in early modern Germany: a shift in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of femininity; and...

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Main Author: Brauner, Sigrid, 1950-1992
Other Authors: Brown, Robert H., 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1995.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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