{"product_id":"imagining-the-witch-emotions-gender-and-selfhood-in-early-modern-germany-hardcover","title":"Imagining the Witch: Emotions, Gender, and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Kounine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagining the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e explores emotions, gender, and selfhood through the lens of witch-trials in early modern Germany. Witch-trials were clearly a gendered phenomenon, but witchcraft was not a uniquely female crime. While women constituted approximately three quarters of those tried for witchcraft in the Holy Roman Empire, a significant minority were men. Witchcraft was also a crime of unbridled passion: it centred on the notion that one person's emotions could have tangible and deadly physical consequences. Yet it is also true that not all suspicions of witchcraft led to a formal accusation, and not all witch-trials led to the stake. Indeed, just over half the total number put on trial for witchcraft in early modern Europe were executed. In order to understand how early modern people imagined the witch, we must first begin to understand how people understood themselves and each other; this can help us to understand how the witch could be a member of the community, living\u003cbr\u003ealongside their accusers, yet inspire such visceral fear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough an examination of case studies of witch-trials that took place in the early modern Lutheran duchy of Wurttemberg in southwestern Germany, Laura Kounine examines how the community, church, and the agents of the law sought to identify the witch, and the ways in which ordinary men and women fought for their lives in an attempt to avoid the stake. The study further explores the visual and intellectual imagination of witchcraft in this period in order to piece together why witchcraft could be aligned with such strong female stereotypes on the one hand, but also be imagined as a crime that could be committed by any human, whether young or old, male or female. By moving beyond stereotypes of the witch, \u003cem\u003eImagining the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e argues that understandings of what constituted witchcraft and the 'witch' appear far more contested and unstable than has previously been suggested. It also suggests new ways of thinking about early modern selfhood which moves beyond teleological arguments about the\u003cbr\u003edevelopment of the 'modern' self. Indeed, it is the trial process itself that created the conditions for a diverse range of people to reflect on, and give meaning, to emotions, gender, and the self in early modern Lutheran Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaura Kounine\u003c\/strong\u003e is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex, and was previously a research fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eCultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), and \u003cem\u003eEmotions in the History of Witchcraft\u003c\/em\u003e (2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753970139424,"sku":"9780198799085","price":196.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/06dc043e9f723d4c428bea0e2acc0932.webp?v=1780030555","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/imagining-the-witch-emotions-gender-and-selfhood-in-early-modern-germany-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}