In a time, ours, in which historiography prefers to measure itself with witchcraft as a judicial phenomenon, or with the men who personally led the persecution, or even with the demonological treatises that greatly influenced witch hunters, this book focuses instead on the victims. Women accused of witchcraft are the protagonists of the trials initiated between the late Middle Ages and the early modern age: that was the time when the great witch hunt was unleashed in Europe. The profiles of the alleged witches, even if drawn by their judges, emerge from these pages in all their changeability and drama: women that are reluctant to plead guilty to unspoken crimes, marked by stubborn silence, surrendered to the full confession of every wickedness extorted by torture.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
Diaboliche, maledette e disperate
Book Subtitle
Le donne nei processi per stregoneria (secoli XIV-XVI)
Authors
Dinora Corsi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
166
Publication Year
2013
Copyright Information
© 2013 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-342-7
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-341-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-342-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-343-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-895-1
Series Title
Biblioteca di storia
Series ISSN
2464-9007
Series E-ISSN
2704-5986