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History 336

History 336. Ideas and Society in Early Modern Europe: The Debate about Gender and Identity. Basic question. How does gender serve as a useful category for historical analysis in a study of the witch hunt in early modern Europe?. Questions.

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History 336

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  1. History 336 Ideas and Society in Early Modern Europe: The Debate about Gender and Identity

  2. Basic question • How does gender serve as a useful category for historical analysis in a study of the witch hunt in early modern Europe?

  3. Questions • What are maleficia (singular: maleficium)? Give some examples. • Witch beliefs have long been part of European culture. What was so distinctive about them in the early modern period that they fueled witch hunts? • What factors might explain the witch hunts in early modern Europe? Are they all equally convincing? • Where did witch hunts seldom occur and where did they occur in great numbers? Why? In which countries did witch hunts cease the earliest? Where did they persist? • Why was witchcraft commonly associated with women? • How did witch hunts begin? What procedures were used at witch trials to determine guilt? How did small hunts develop into large-scale panics? • What is the significance of the illustration on p. 261?

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