| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
early European witch trials and criminal justice, 1430-1530 |
| Author: |
StokesLaura, 1974- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic |
| Subject: |
Witchcraft - History - Europe, Central - 16th century. - |
| Subject: |
Witchcraft - History - Europe, Central - To 1500. - |
| Subject: |
Witchcraft - History - Europe, Central - |
| Subject: |
Philosophy. - |
| Subject: |
Law. - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY - General. - Europe - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY - Medieval. - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY - Modern - |
| Subject: |
HISTORY - Social History. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230309043An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| Summary: |
Demons of Urban Reform essays an answer to the question of why the diabolic witchcraft concept was adopted into ordinary criminal justice and what effects it had thereafter. Lucerne and Basel, two Swiss-German city states that received and accommodated the diabolic witch concept in the mid-fifteenth century, are examined alongside Franconian Nuremberg, where the diabolic witch concept was soundly rejected. Basel, like Nuremberg, ultimately rejected the diabolic witch concept and the mass trials that it inspired elsewhere. In Lucerne, however, witch trials had a transformative effect on criminal justice, and early witch hunts in the late fifteenth century presaged even greater conflagrations a century later. Laura Stokes roots the analysis of witch trials in the quotidian proceedings of the secular courts she examines, offering evidence for the importance of social control in pre-Reformation cities and the reciprocal relationship between developments in criminal justice and judicial concerns over witchcraft. |
| ISBN: |
9780230309043electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230309046electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Evil by any Other Name: Defining Witchcraft PART I: WITCH TRIALS IN THE CITIES Basel: Territorialization and Rural Autonomy Nuremberg: The Malleus that Never Struck Lucerne: Urban Witch Hunters A Revolution in Criminal Justice Between Two Worlds: Fifteenth-century Justice at the Threshold of the Early Modern The Advancing Death Penalty and the Re-imagining of Magical Crimes PART III: REFORMING ZEAL AND PERSECUTION IN LUCERNE Urban Reform and Social Control Witchcraft, Sodomy, and the Demonization of Crime Conclusion Appendix: Selected trial documents Notes Bibliography Index. Machine generated contents note: Introduction The Advancing Death Penalty Procedures of Criminal Justice Social Control Before the Reformation The Witch Trials in Context Three Cases and a Model Conclusion. |