Francesco Maria Guazzo, woodcut from Compendium maleficarum, Milan 1626, Bodleian Library, Oxford 22. Andreas Zeidler, A bird's-eye view map of Nördlingen, 1651, etching. The rack, from Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana, Vienna 1768. Illustration to Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, Cautio criminalis, second edition.

Christoph Murer, Allegory of Good Government and the Justice of the Nuremberg City Councillors, 1598, stained glass. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Handschriftenabteilung 12. Berhard Jobin, A Jewess Giving Birth to Two Piglets, 12 Sept. Michael Ostendorfer, Pilgrimage to the Beautiful Virgin of Regensburg, 1520. Nördlingen viewed from the Kaiserwiese, from Der curieuse Passagier, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1725. Wolfgang Kilian, A bird's-eye view map of Augsburg, 1626, copper etching. Fürstliches Archiv Thurn und Taxis, Regensburg 8. The town of Würzburg, from the Cosmography of Sebastian Münster, 1550, woodcut. Matthäus Merian, Franconian Circle, 1648. Portrait of Julius Echter, 1587, oil painting. Johann Leypolt, title page of Encaenia et Tricenalia Juliana, 1603, copper etching. Johann Leypolt, the Juliusspital, 1603, copper etching. Illustration to Apocalypse 17, in Das Newe Testament Deutzsch, Sept. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2Ĭontents Cover Title Copyright List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: The Witch at the Smithy PART I: Persecution Chapter 1 The Baroque Landscape Chapter 2 Interrogation and Torture PART II: Fantasy Chapter 3 Cannibalism Chapter 4 Sex with the Devil Chapter 5 Sabbaths PART III: Womanhood Chapter 6 Fertility Chapter 7 Crones PART IV: The Witch Chapter 8 Family Revenge Chapter 9 Godless Children Chapter 10 A Witch in the Age of Enlightenment Epilogue Notes Bibliography Indexġ. Office: Europe Office: Set in Minion by Fakenham Photosetting Printed in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall ISBN 978–0–300–11983–1 Library of Congress Control Number 2004111947 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. For information about this and other Yale University Press publications, please contact: U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN AND LONDONĬopyright © 2004 by Lyndal Roper All rights reserved. Witch Craze Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany

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