Koop Online Defining Dominion: The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization) – Gerhild Scholz Williams

In this intriguing volume, Gerhild Scholz Williams explores the roles of magic and demonology in France and Germany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She guides the reader through a variety of texts–many of them popular and influential in their day–to illuminate how magic came to shape people’s perceptions of a changing world. This comprehensive study looks at magic as an intellectual and cultural language, as an attempt to explain the world, and as a means to control and confine women, whose prop…