"Evil people" : a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier
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"Evil people" : a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier
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The work "Evil people" : a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- "Evil people" : a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier
- Title remainder
- a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier
- Statement of responsibility
- Johannes Dillinger ; translated by Laura Stokes
- Subject
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- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Witchcraft & Wicca
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Germany -- Swabia
- Germany -- Trier
- HISTORY -- Europe -- General
- History
- Witch hunting
- Witch hunting -- Germany | Swabia -- History
- Witch hunting -- Germany | Trier -- History
- Witchcraft
- Witchcraft -- Germany | Trier -- History
- Witchcraft -- Germany | Swabia -- History
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Magick Studies
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Summary
- "Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions - Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier - he provides a nuanced explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed over 1,300 lives in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. Dillinger finds that, far from representing the centralizing aggression of emerging early states against local cultures, witch hunts were almost always driven by members of the middling and lower classes in cities and villages, and they were stopped only when early modern states acquired the power to control their localities." "Situating his study in the context of a pervasive magical worldview that embraced both orthodox Christianity and folk belief, Dillinger shows that, in some cases, witch trials themselves were used as magical instruments, designed to avert threats of impending divine wrath. "Evil People" describes a two-century evolution in which witch hunters who liberally bestowed the label "evil people" on others turned into modern images of evil themselves."--Jacket
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- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 133.4/309434313
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- BF1583
- LC item number
- .D5513 2009eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in early modern German history
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