Download or read book Die Salemer Hexenverfolgungen written by Winfried Herget and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Der Einfluss der puritanischen Geistlichen auf den Ausbruch der Salemer Hexenverfolgungen 1692 written by Fabian Fuchs and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Hexenverfolgung im frühneuzeitlichen Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Salemer Hexenverfolgungen von 1692 stellen ein wichtiges und einzigartiges Ereignis in der Geschichte Nordamerikas dar. Bei den Prozessen wurden ungefähr 20 Menschen als vermeintliche Hexen zum Tode verurteilt und gehängt. Im Vergleich zu den massiven Hexenverfolgungen in Europa könnte man die Fälle in Salem als unwesentlich abtun, aber sie unterscheiden sich von den europäischen Exzessen in einigen Punkten. Die geistige Basis der Hexenjagden in Europa war der "Malleus Maleficarum" (Hexenhammer), der den Verfolgern Kriterien und Instruktionen für das Erkennen, die Wirkung und das Foltern von Hexen an die Hand gab. Dieser wurde in Nordamerika nicht verwendet. Außerdem wurden die Verfolgungen und Prozesse von der Salemer Stadt- und Dorfgemeinschaft organisiert, wohingegen in Europa hauptsächlich die Kirche dafürverantwortlich war. Diese Hausarbeit untersucht den Einfluss der puritanischen Geistlichen auf den Ausbruch der Salemer Hexenprozesse. Einerseits werde ich die Schriften und Werke dreier dieser Personen vorstellen und analysieren, inwieweit sie magisches und die Hexerei betreffendes Gedankengut enthalten und wie dieses die Bücher und Predigten rezipierende Bevölkerung in Neuengland beeinflusst hat. Das damalige Gemeinwesen Salems war puritanisch geführt und organisiert, und der Einfluss dieser christlichen Reformbewegung auf das gesellschaftliche Leben war hoch. Die Fragestellung ist nun diejenige, ob puritanische Geistliche die Hauptverantwortlichen für den Ausbruch der Verfolgungen sind, ob sie als Opfer selbst darunter zu leiden hatten oder ob sich beides die Waage hält. Zuerst werde ich einen kurzen Abriss über die Geschichte und Herkunft des Puritanismus geben. Danach betrachte
Download or read book The Devil s Disciples written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the subject as a legal and social historian, Peter Charles Hoffer offers a fresh look at the Salem outbreak based on recent studies of panic rumors, teen hysteria, child abuse, and intrafamily relations. He brings to life a set of conversations -- in taverns and courtrooms, at home and work -- which took place among suspected witches, accusers, witnesses, and spectators. The accusations, denials, and confessions of this legal story eventually resurrect the tangled internal tensions that lay at the bottom of the Salem witch hunts.
Download or read book A Fever in Salem written by Laurie Winn Carlson and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new interpretation of the New England Witch Trials offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, Laurie Winn Carlson focuses on the afflicted. Systematically comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries and court records to those of the encephalitis epidemic in the early twentieth century, she argues convincingly that the victims suffered from the same disease. A unique blend of historical epidemiology and sociology. —Katrina L. Kelner, Science. Meticulously researched...the author marshalls her arguments with clarity and persuasive force. —New Yorker
Download or read book The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692 and its Practical Application to Our Own Town written by George Miller Beard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692 and Its Practical Application to Our Own Time written by George Miller Beard and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evil People written by Johannes Dillinger and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions—Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier—he provides a nuanced explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed over 1,300 lives in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. Dillinger finds that, far from representing the centralizing aggression of emerging early states against local cultures, witch hunts were almost always driven by members of the middling and lower classes in cities and villages, and they were stopped only when early modern states acquired the power to control their localities. Situating his study in the context of a pervasive magical worldview that embraced both orthodox Christianity and folk belief, Dillinger shows that, in some cases, witch trials themselves were used as magical instruments, designed to avert threats of impending divine wrath. "Evil People" describes a two-century evolution in which witch hunters who liberally bestowed the label "evil people" on others turned into modern images of evil themselves. In the original German, "Evil People" won the Friedrich Spee Award as an outstanding contribution to the history of witchcraft.
Download or read book The Specter of Salem written by Gretchen A. Adams and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Specter of Salem, Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the new nation’s progress from a disorderly and brutal past to a rational present, while critics of new religious movements in the 1830s cast them as a return to Salem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil War, southerners evoked witch burning to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, Adams ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation. “Imaginative and thoughtful. . . . Thought-provoking, informative, and convincingly presented, The Specter of Salem is an often spellbinding mix of politics, cultural history, and public historiography.”— New England Quarterly “This well-researched book, forgoing the usual heft of scholarly studies, is not another interpretation of the Salem trials, but an important major work within the scholarly literature on the witch-hunt, linking the hysteria of the period to the evolving history of the American nation. A required acquisition for academic libraries.”—Choice, Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Download or read book A Storm of Witchcraft written by Emerson W. Baker and published by Pivotal Moments in American Hi. This book was released on 2015 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.
Download or read book Salem Witchcraft written by Charles W. Upham and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVPainstakingly researched history of Salem village and the notorious witchcraft trials held there in the late 17th century. Fascinating, classic account of one of the darkest episodes in early American history. /div
Download or read book Reformation and Early Modern Europe written by David M. Whitford and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe.
Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials Reader written by Frances Hill and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.
Download or read book The Making of Salem written by Robin DeRosa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are a case study in hysteria and group psychology, and the cultural effects still linger centuries later. This critical study examines original trial transcripts, historical accounts, fiction and drama, film and television shows, and tourist sites in contemporary Salem, challenging the process of how history is collected and recorded. Drawing from literary and historical theory, as well as from performance studies, the book offers a new definition of history and uses Salem as a tool for rethinking the relationships between the truth and the stories people tell about the past.
Download or read book Witchcraft at Salem written by Chadwick Hansen and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1988-08-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and much has been misunderstood. "The more I studied the documents of what actually took place in the community, "writes Chadwich Hansen, "the more I found myself in opposition to the traditional interpretations. It seems to me that a serious consideration was in order." He argues, for instance, that witchcraft was actually practiced in seventeenth-century New England, as it was in Europe at the same time. Moreover, the behavior of the afflicted persons was not fraudulent, as some have claimed, but pathological: these people were hysterics in the clinical rather than the popular sense of the term. Further still, the clergy did not inspire or take advantage of the witch hunts as has been charged; on the contrary, they were among the chief opponents of the "mass hysteria." Library Journal called this book, ..".The most important scholarly contribution to the literature of witchcraft to appear in many years."
Download or read book Salem Possessed written by Paul Boyer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources—many previously neglected or unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. “Salem Possessed,” wrote Robin Briggs in The Times Literary Supplement, “reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatments can be consigned to the historical lumber-room.” Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the breakup of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.
Download or read book The Salem Witchcraft Trials written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Peter Charles Hoffer reexamines a notorious episode in American history and presents many of its legal details in true perspective for the first time. Hoffer also shows how rights we take for granted today did not exist in colonial times, and he demonstrates how these cases relate to current instances of children accusing adults of abuse.
Download or read book The Salem Witchcraft Trials written by Geraldine Woods and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events surrounding the Salem Witchcraft Trials and the unjust treatment of those who were falsely accused.
