Introduction -- Languages of defence -- Confession, conscience, and selfhood on trial -- Gender and emotions in the visual and intellectual imagination. This book explores levels of personhood through witch trials in early modern Germany. Witchcraft was not a uniquely female cr…
The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern Wurttemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in…
The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern Württemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in…
This book explores levels of personhood through witch trials in early modern Germany. Witchcraft was not a uniquely female crime; a significant minority of those tried for witchcraft in the Holy Roman Empire were men. Concepts of witchcraft also centred on the notion that emotio…
Contains names of approximately 60,000 persons applied to leave Germany from late eighteenth century to 1900. Includes date & place of birth, residence at time of application & application date.
Contains names of approximately 60,000 persons applied to leave Germany from late eighteenth century to 1900. Includes date & place of birth, residence at time of application & application date.
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer -"Jew Süss" - is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Wurttemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Wurttemberg autho…
Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "Joseph Süss Oppenheimer -"Jew Süss"--Is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Wurttemberg. When Carl Alexander died u…
"Joseph Süss Oppenheimer--'Jew Süss'--is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the 'court Jew' of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Württemberg autho…
:Joseph Süss Oppenheimer--"Jew Süss"--is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the 'court Jew' of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Wurttemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Wurttemberg autho…
