Why did parents prosecute their children as witches? Why did a sixteenth-century midwife entice a burgher woman to pretend she was giving birth to puppies? How did the life of a transsexual woman in early eighteenth-century Hamburg end? This volume presents a range of startling case-studies from German society between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The study reveals new meanings of gender and identity relating to the experiences of men and women in early modern German history.
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"...[a] multifaceted anthology of solid scholarship, intriguing new historical approaches, and extensive historiography. The editor, together with her ten collaborators, has achieved a scholarly work of wide geographical and chronological scope...This anthology should not only be read by scholars and students of the early modern German period but by early modern Europeanists in general." Renaissance Quarterly
"It can only be hoped that this volume will alert those interested in gender and early modern studies to the exciting work being undertaken in the German context." H-GERMAN
"Offers a challenging sampling of recent scholarship in German gender history.... Recommended." Choice
"An extraordinary book that takes monsters and the mundane in stride and is not dry as dust scholarship but infused with life and insight." Bibliotheque d'humanisme et Renaissance
"Remarkable for uniqueness and depth..." History
"It can only be hoped that this volume will alert those interested in gender and early modern studies to the exciting work being undertaken in the German context." H-GERMAN
"Offers a challenging sampling of recent scholarship in German gender history.... Recommended." Choice
"An extraordinary book that takes monsters and the mundane in stride and is not dry as dust scholarship but infused with life and insight." Bibliotheque d'humanisme et Renaissance
"Remarkable for uniqueness and depth..." History
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Why did parents prosecute their children as witches? Why did a sixteenth-century midwife entice a burgher woman to pretend she was giving birth to puppies? How did the life of a transsexual woman in early eighteenth-century Hamburg end? This volume presents a range of startling case-studies from German society between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment which make us think in new ways about the meanings of gender and identity in the past and which relates, above all, to the lived experiences of men and women, whose lives and choices mattered.
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diabolic children, diabolic powder, births fraud, godless children, annos discretionis, convent members, social disciplining, aulic council, confessional politics, clothing behaviour, male understanding, membrum virile, costume book, first breeches, male villagers, wine soup, witch persecutions, folk magic, monstrous births, popular magic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Christina Vend, Charlotte Zeller, Rosine Williardts, Lyndal Roper, Ulinka Rublack, Georg Vend, Heide Wunder, Schneider Augustin, Augustin Mattheis, Middle Ages, Electorate of the Palatinate, Maria Barbara Burk, Maria Magdalena, Friederike Williardts, Maria Josepha, Westphalian Peace, Anna Stozin, Buch Weinsberg, Gerd Schwerhoff, Hans Emler, Heinz Schilling, Martin Dinges, Anna Seitterin, Die Schwarzschen New!
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- Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe by Lyndal Roper on 8 pages
- Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History) by Merry E. Wiesner on 5 pages
- The German Reformation, Second Edition (Studies in European History) by R.W. Scribner on 4 pages
- The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (Oxford Studies in Social History) by Ulinka Rublack in Front Matter, page 16, and page 216
- Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur on page 36, page 150, and page 163
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- From Reich to Revolution: German History 1558-1806 (European History in Perspective) by Peter H. Wilson on 5 pages
- The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe by Linda C. Hults in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Foreign Encounters: Case Studies in German Literature before 1700 (Daphnis 33: 1-2) by Mara R. Wade on page 18, and page 268
- Women And Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Susan E. Dinan on page 58, and Back Matter
- Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins (Past and Present Publications) by Peter King in Back Matter
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