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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 349–375.
Published: 01 May 2020
... was acquitted provisionally after three years in jail. Remarkably, she had the strength to produce an account of her ordeal and to bring her case before the highest court of justice in the Empire. The historical literature on witch trials has long been polarized by the quest for the most “accurate” death tolls...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 309–338.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Kirilka Stavreva
Fighting Words: Witch-Speak in
Late Elizabethan Docu-fiction
Kirilka Stavreva
St. Ambrose University...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Laura Kounine In early modern German witch trials, how defendants looked and moreover how they behaved on trial—physically and emotionally—was crucial to whether they were deemed innocent or guilty. This was particularly the case in trials of witchcraft, a crime that often left little tangible...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 339–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Heather Hirschfeld
Collaborating across Generations:
Thomas Heywood, Richard Brome,
and the Production of The Late
Lancashire Witches...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
... coupling and the ways in which its specific meanings at the end of the Middle Ages might have contributed to the fears that drove witch-hunting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012
Death...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 577–585.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and manufacture of paper, which made writing easier and reading cheaper, coupled with the introduction of print technology after 1455; the upheaval of the Protestant Reformation and its Catholic counterpart, and the bloody aftermath of religious wars, persecutions, and witch hunts that (re)shaped performance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 533–551.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of an eleven-year-old child, a rape which he is convicted of but ultimately pardoned for. Earlier in his career, however, Lambe is indicted for using magic to disable the body of a gentleman as well as for invoking evil spirits. What connection exists between the charges against Lambe as a witch and magician...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
... earlier centuries. Scrutinizing sources for the earliest burnings of heretics and witches up to the eleventh century shows that these burnings were mere lynchings and not the outcome of juridical processes administered by secular or clerical authorities. Not until the twelfth century did authorities...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 445–467.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in Witchcraft and Magic. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. x, 373 pp. $105.00.
Breuer, Heidi. Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early
Modern England. Studies in Medieval History and Culture. New York:
Routledge, 2009. xii, 190 pp. $95.00.
Chuchiak, John F. IV., ed. and trans...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 January 2024
... in other shady individuals. According to Spadon, a prostitute walks as fast as witches tend to; her cheeks are fat and either dark red or pale. Like other devious characters, her hair is curly and her hands are either too red or too white. She has a hairy forehead and a frail neck bent toward the left. Her...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 421–459.
Published: 01 May 2012
... againe into a man The man is a sailor trans-
formed into bestial shape by a witch, and, spurned by his shipmates, he
eventually finds himself near a church as the consecration of the Mass is
about to take place. Not daring to enter the church “least he should have
beene beaten and driven out...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 469–471.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the stillborn,
the bodies of people dying confessing at their deathbed and the bodies of
witches confessing otherwise. As we know, it is by familiarizing ourselves
with the face of death — and the hubris that may accompany it — that a new
body of knowledge is possible. By looking at the educational...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 675–677.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., the bodies of saints and the
bodies of criminals, the bodies of suicides and the bodies of the stillborn,
the bodies of people dying confessing at their deathbed and the bodies of
witches confessing otherwise. As we know, it is by familiarizing ourselves
with the face of death — and the hubris...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., the body and burial sites, the bodies of saints and the
bodies of criminals, the bodies of suicides and the bodies of the stillborn,
the bodies of people dying confessing at their deathbed and the bodies of
witches confessing otherwise. As we know, it is by familiarizing ourselves
with the face...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 7–52.
Published: 01 January 2017
... are a perfect example of a subject dominated by
grand narrative, theories, and the case-study method. The classic case study
of German witch trials focused on hundreds of trials, analyzed them in
detail, and sketched out changes over a hundred or hundred and fifty years.
I learned a great deal from...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 January 2000
... a secret can also be a mortal event. In
northern Europe the early modern witch panics were complicated, uneven,
and often deadly struggles between juridical, clerical, and community belief
systems about the nature and effects of hidden knowledge. The struggle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 January 2015
... the chapter. Two
years later, in 1638, the community was fully engaged in the theatrics of
possession. One nun had been identified as a witch by the demons possess-
Strocchia / Women on the Edge 69
ing some of her peers; distraught at this accusation, she...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 241–280.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., 13 (1963): 77 – 102;
David Gentilcore, From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern
Terra d’Ottranto (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), 5; Adriano Pros-
peri, “The Missionary,” in Rosario Villari, ed., Baroque...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of microhistory to address big problems in social and
cultural history, legal history, the history of crime, gender history (making
use of the often overlooked potential in literary texts), and global history.
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1 Thomas Robisheaux, The Last Witch of Langenburg (New York: W. W. Norton...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 419–440.
Published: 01 May 2015
... / 45.2 / 2015
vol. 245. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press in association with Cistercian
Publications, 2013. xxx, 242 pp. Paper $29.95.
Smith, Emma, ed. Women on the Early Modern Stage: “A Woman Killed
with Kindness,” “The Tamer Tamed,” “The Duchess of Malfi,” Th“ e Witch of
Edmonton.” New...
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