Abstract
Preface 1. Introduction Ulinka Rublack Part I. Masculinities: 2. What made a man a man? Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century findings Heide Wunder 3. Men in witchcraft trials: towards a social anthropology of 'male' understandings of magic and witchcraft Eva Labouvie Part II. Transgressions: 4. Monstrous deception: midwifery, fraud and gender in early modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber Alison Rowlands 5. 'Evil imaginings and fantasies': child witches and the end of the witch craze Lyndal Roper 6. Gender tales: the multiple identities of Maiden Heinrich, Hamburg 1700 Mary Lindemann 7. Disembodied theory? Discourses of sex in early modern Germany Merry Wiesner Part III. Politics: 8. Peasant protest and the language of womens' petitions: Christina Vend's supplications of 1629 Renate Blickle 9. State formation, gender and the experience of governance in early modern Wurttemberg Ulinka Rublack Part IV. Religion: 10. Cloistering womens' past: conflicting accounts of enclosure in a seventeenth-century Munich nunnery Ulrike Strasser 11. Memory, religion and family in the writing of Pietist women Ulrike Gleixner 12. One body, two confessions: mixed marriages in Germany Dagmar Freist.
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