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- catalog abstract "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 the witch hunts that swept across Europe from 1435 to 1750. Brauner shows that the modern notion of the witch as a willful, conniving, promiscuous woman was first established by German Inquisitors in the Malleus maleficarum (1487). In subsequent works by Martin Luther and the sixteenth-century playwrights Paul Rebhun and Hans Sachs, the witch emerged as the counterpart to the new feminine ideal of the urban housewife. By demonstrating how the binary concepts of "good" housewife and "bad wife" (or witch) were propagated among the educated urban elite who presided over witch trials, Brauner suggests that the witch hunts functioned to discipline women who failed to display the docility and subservience expected of the new urban housewife.".
- catalog contributor b7661998.
- catalog contributor b7661999.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Brauner shows that the modern notion of the witch as a willful, conniving, promiscuous woman was first established by German Inquisitors in the Malleus maleficarum (1487). In subsequent works by Martin Luther and the sixteenth-century playwrights Paul Rebhun and Hans Sachs, the witch emerged as the counterpart to the new feminine ideal of the urban housewife. By demonstrating how the binary concepts of "good" housewife and "bad wife" (or witch) were propagated among the educated urban elite who presided over witch trials, Brauner suggests that the witch hunts functioned to discipline women who failed to display the docility and subservience expected of the new urban housewife.".
- catalog description "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 the witch hunts that swept across Europe from 1435 to 1750.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-161) and index.".
- catalog description "The modern witch: concept, history, context -- The Malleus maleficarum: witches as wanton women -- Martin Luther: witches and fearless wives -- Paul Rebhun: witches and bad wives -- Hans Sachs: the witch lurking within -- Burning the witch to tame the shrew -- Appendix: sixteenth-century terms for witches.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 164 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Fearless wives and frightened shrews.".
- catalog identifier "0870237675 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fearless wives and frightened shrews.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Fearless wives and frightened shrews.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog subject "133.4/3/0943 20".
- catalog subject "BF1583 .B73 1995".
- catalog subject "Feminism Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Trials (Witchcraft) Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Witchcraft Germany History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The modern witch: concept, history, context -- The Malleus maleficarum: witches as wanton women -- Martin Luther: witches and fearless wives -- Paul Rebhun: witches and bad wives -- Hans Sachs: the witch lurking within -- Burning the witch to tame the shrew -- Appendix: sixteenth-century terms for witches.".
- catalog title "Fearless wives and frightened shrews : the construction of the witch in early modern Germany / Sigrid Brauner ; edited with an introduction by Robert H. Brown ; foreword by Sara Lennox.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".