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Fearless wives and frightened shrews

by Sigrid Brauner

1995 164 pages eng

In fifteenth-century Germany, women were singled out as witches for the first time in history; this book explores why. Sigrid Brauner examines the connections among three central developments in early modern Germany: a shift in gender roles for women; the rise of a new urban ideal of femininity; and…

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