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A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.
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Geistliches Lied im Spiegel der Jahrhunderte – 500 Jahre evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch >br /> Am Anfang stand die Reformation. Sie prägte das deutsche Christentum - auch musikalisch, wie dieser umfangreiche, wissenschaftlich fundierte Band zeigt. Martin Luther trug vor 500 Jahren entscheidend dazu bei, das Evangelium über die Musik zu verbreiten. Denn 1524 wurde das erste evangelische Gesangbuch gedruckt und ist seither musikalisches Glaubensbekenntnis für viele Christen weltweit. Das Buch zum Jubiläum zeichnet die Entwicklung des evangelischen Kirchengesangs nach und zeigt seine Bedeutung für den Glauben auf. >br /> - Wie alles begann: die Anfänge evangelischer Gesangbücher zu Lu...