Killing Women Gender Sorcery And Violence In Late Medieval Germany

Author : James Mitchell
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640741838
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Women - Gender, Sorcery, and Violence in Late Medieval Germany written by James Mitchell and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, grade: A, San Francisco State University, language: English, abstract: In this essay we will examine in detail the process by which witchcraft became deliberately and definitively feminized in fifteenth-century Germany, and we will also show how contemporary artists of the time made use of the prevailing popular notions about witches to depict them in accordance with the "evil old woman" archetype. We will also see how these women subjects became eroticized through their depiction as young seductresses and as participants in diabolical sexual extravaganzas of various kinds. Finally we will show how the witchcraft fright presented the same artists with the opportunity of illustrating women in sexually suggestive, not to say pornographic poses, made publicly permissible and even fashionable for the first time in the history of German art.

Author : James Mitchell
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640741595
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Women - Gender, Sorcery, and Violence in Late Medieval Germany written by James Mitchell and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, grade: A, San Francisco State University, language: English, abstract: In this essay we will examine in detail the process by which witchcraft became deliberately and definitively feminized in fifteenth-century Germany, and we will also show how contemporary artists of the time made use of the prevailing popular notions about witches to depict them in accordance with the “evil old woman” archetype. We will also see how these women subjects became eroticized through their depiction as young seductresses and as participants in diabolical sexual extravaganzas of various kinds. Finally we will show how the witchcraft fright presented the same artists with the opportunity of illustrating women in sexually suggestive, not to say pornographic poses, made publicly permissible and even fashionable for the first time in the history of German art.

Author : Stephan Quensel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 365841412X
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witch Politics in Early Modern Europe (1400–1800) written by Stephan Quensel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be completed? From a sociological point of view, the findings of recent international research on witches provide a model of a more general, highly ambivalent, 'pastoral' attitude, according to which a shepherd has to care for the welfare of his flock as well as for its erring sheep. The first main part describes the clerical initial situation, which developed the 'Dominican' demonological model of witchcraft on the basis of the still dominant magico-religious mentality in the 15th century. A model, according to the second part of the book, which then in the course of the 16th century in Western Europe increasingly fell into the hands of the not so innocent jurists. From there it developed into a legal witch persecution that realized the early European witch model from the village witch to the mass persecutions to the late child witches. The third part describes how witch persecutions slowly became less important towards the end of the 17th century as a general witchcraft 'politics' game in the transition from a confessional state to a (court) 'civil service' state.

Author : Jonathan Bryan Durrant
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004160930
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft, Gender, and Society in Early Modern Germany written by Jonathan Bryan Durrant and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the example of Eichstatt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by persecution did not collude in its escalation.

Author : Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingues
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781003098430
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, Ca. 1100-1500 written by Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingues and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in medieval times. Building on the contributions of the social sciences, and in particular feminist criminology, the book analyses the rich theme of women and violence in its full spectrum, including both violence committed against women and violence perpetrated by women themselves, in order to show how medieval assumptions postulated a tight connection between the two. Violent crime, verbal offences, war and peace-making are among the themes approached by the book, which assesses to what extent coexisting elaborations on the relationship between femininity and violence in the Mediterranean were conflicting or collaborating. Geographical regions explored include Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. This multidisciplinary book will appeal to scholars and students of history, literature, gender studies, and legal studies"--

Author : Jamie Page
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198862784
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany written by Jamie Page and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on legal case studies, this book focuses on how gender discourse shaped the lives of prostitutes in medieval Germany.

Author : Christine Ekholst
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789004271449
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Punishment for Each Criminal written by Christine Ekholst and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Punishment for Each Criminal is the first in-depth analysis of how gender influenced Swedish medieval law. Christine Ekholst demonstrates how the law codes gradually and unevenly introduced women as possible perpetrators for all serious crimes. The laws reveal that legislators not only expected men and women to commit different types of crimes; they also punished men and women in different ways if they were convicted. The laws consistently stipulated different methods of executions for men and women; while men were hanged or broken on the wheel, women were buried alive, stoned, or burned at the stake. A Punishment for Each Criminal explores the background to the important legislative changes that took place when women were made personally responsible for their own crimes.

Author : Lisa Lampert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202554
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare written by Lisa Lampert and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized contemporary Jews; Woman represented as either virgin or whore. In Western thought, the Christian was figured as spiritual and masculine, defined in opposition to the carnal, feminine, and Jewish. Women and Jews are not simply the Other for the Christian exegetical tradition, however; they also represent sources of origin, as one cannot conceive of men without women or of Christianity without Judaism. The bifurcated representations of Woman and Jew found in the literature of the Middle Ages and beyond reflect the uneasy figurations of women and Jews as both insiders and outsiders to Christian society. Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare provides the first extended examination of the linkages of gender and Jewish difference in late medieval and early modern English literature. Focusing on representations of Jews and women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, selections from medieval drama, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Lampert explores the ways in which medieval and early modern authors used strategies of opposition to—and identification with—figures of Jews and women to create individual and collective Christian identities. This book shows not only how these questions are interrelated in the texts of medieval and early modern England but how they reveal the distinct yet similarly paradoxical places held by Woman and Jew within a longer tradition of Western thought that extends to the present day.

Author : Ann Marie Rasmussen
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781580441513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women written by Ann Marie Rasmussen and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes three fiction, a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document.

Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317875591
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe written by Brian P. Levack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1450 and 1750 thousands of people – most of them women – were accused, prosecuted and executed for the crime of witchcraft. The witch-hunt was not a single event; it comprised thousands of individual prosecutions, each shaped by the religious and social dimensions of the particular area as well as political and legal factors. Brian Levack sorts through the proliferation of theories to provide a coherent introduction to the subject, as well as contributing to the scholarly debate. The book: Examines why witchcraft prosecutions took place, how many trials and victims there were, and why witch-hunting eventually came to an end. Explores the beliefs of both educated and illiterate people regarding witchcraft. Uses regional and local studies to give a more detailed analysis of the chronological and geographical distribution of witch-trials. Emphasises the legal context of witchcraft prosecutions. Illuminates the social, economic and political history of early modern Europe, and in particular the position of women within it. In this fully updated third edition of his exceptional study, Levack incorporates the vast amount of literature that has emerged since the last edition. He substantially extends his consideration of the decline of the witch-hunt and goes further in his exploration of witch-hunting after the trials, especially in contemporary Africa. New illustrations vividly depict beliefs about witchcraft in early modern Europe.