Anne L. Barstow
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Barstow, Anne Llewellyn
- Geburtstag
- 1929-06-22
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
- Ausbildung
- University of Florida (BA | 1949)
Union Theological Seminary, New York (MA | 1952)
Columbia University (MA | 1964)
Columbia University (PhD | 1978) - Organisationen
- World Historical Association
American Society of Church History
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
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The book roams around very widely in its ambition to cover not only the countries with well-known witchcraft persecutions, but others including Russia. Its underlying theme is that of seeing the witchcraft persecutions as a war on women. Women certainly were greatly disadvantaged, in a period where employment laws were pushing women into more marginal, poorly paid work, where the continent was riven by religious conflict and wars, and where certain officials in both church and state viewed women as more potentially evil than men due to their perceived moral weakness. Certainly a large element of 'blame the victim' went on. The descriptions of appalling torture in this book are also harrowing.
Ultimately, I'm not sure how much use this is as a real guide to the development of the hunts, as opposed to a whistle stop tour with some anecdotes of sad victims. The cruel and even sadistic treatment inflicted on the victims was deplorable, but I wasn't sure if I really learned anything from this book that I didn't already know from others. Although this was published in the 1990s, I'm pretty sure there were others written around the same time which drew the same inferences about gender bias in the numbers of victims of the persecutions, despite the claims in the book to be unique in this. So I would rate this at 3 stars.… (mehr)