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This darker, more twisted, version of Diana was the early leader of witch craft in the Middle Ages, and was another projection of women during the time period. [6] When looking at the witch trials themselves, the accused were often female and made up a large chunk of the total witches from early witch trials. [7]
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (2013) excerpt and text search; Gibbons, Jenny (1998). "Recent Developments in the Study of the Great European Witch Hunt". The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. Vol. 5. Gouges, Linnea de (2018). Witch hunts and State Building in Early Modern ...
Wilby opens her book with a transcript from the trial of the cunning woman Bessie Dunlop, which took place in Edinburgh in 1576, in the midst of the Early Modern witch trials. Dunlop had been accused of "Sorcery, Witchcraft and Incantation, with Invocation of spirits of the devil", found guilty, and executed through strangulation.
In Peter Elmer's novel Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and politics in early modern England [32] he argues and provides evidence for the fact that many of England's great witch trials occurred at times when political parties and governing bodies felt that their authority was being threatened. During the years of 1629 to 1637 no trials occurred in ...
With over 25 manuscript copies from fifteenth and early sixteenth century editions from the 1470s to 1692, the Formicarius is an important work for the study of the origins of the witch trials in Early Modern Europe, as it sheds light on their earliest phase during the first half of the 15th century. [2]
The witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided. There were trials in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but then the witch scare went into decline, before becoming a major issue again and peaking in the 17th century; particularly during the Thirty Years' War. What had previously been a belief that some people possessed ...
In modern times, the book has often been viewed as a typical inquisitorial manual, a perception that many historians have refuted. [ citation needed ] According to Jenny Gibbons: in the 1970s, when feminist and Neo-Pagan authors turned their attention to the witch trials, the Malleus Maleficarum ( Hammer of Witches ) was the only manual readily ...
Pages in category "Early Modern witch hunts" ... The Burning Times; D. Ducking stool; F. Feminist interpretations of witch trials in the early modern period; H ...