@article{1470104,
      recid = {1470104},
      author = {Quensel, Stephan.},
      title = {Witch politics in early Modern Europe (1400-1800) /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Wiesbaden :},
      pages = {1 online resource (763 p.)},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {Why does an entire society believe that there are witches  who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state',  the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public  involved play in each case? And how could this project be  finished? From a sociological point of view, the findings  of recent international research on witches provide a model  of a more general, highly ambivalent, 'pastoral' attitude,  according to which a shepherd has to care for the welfare  of his flock as well as for its erring sheep. The first  main part describes the clerical initial situation, which  developed the 'Dominican' demonological model of witchcraft  on the basis of the still dominant magico-religious  mentality in the 15th century. A model, according to the  second part of the book, which then in the course of the  16th century in Western Europe increasingly fell into the  hands of the not so innocent jurists. From there it  developed into a legal witch persecution that realized the  early European witch model from the village witch to the  mass persecutions to the late child witches. The third part  describes how witch persecutions slowly became less  important towards the end of the 17th century as a general  witchcraft 'politics' game in the transition from a  confessional state to a (court) 'civil service' state. The  author Prof. Dr. Stephan Quensel is a lawyer and  criminologist. Until his retirement in 2002, he was a  professor in the Department of Resocialization and  Rehabilitation in the Sociology program at the University  of Bremen. The translation was done with the help of  artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was  done primarily in terms of content.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1470104},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41412-2},
}