Rowlands, Alison (2020) Identity, Memory, Self-fashioning: Narratives of Non-confession in the Witch-trial of Margaretha Horn, 1652. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 14 (3). pp. 336-370. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2019.0031
Rowlands, Alison (2020) Identity, Memory, Self-fashioning: Narratives of Non-confession in the Witch-trial of Margaretha Horn, 1652. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 14 (3). pp. 336-370. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2019.0031
Rowlands, Alison (2020) Identity, Memory, Self-fashioning: Narratives of Non-confession in the Witch-trial of Margaretha Horn, 1652. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 14 (3). pp. 336-370. DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2019.0031
Abstract
This article focuses on the trial of Margaretha Horn, a sixty-two year old peasant woman arrested for witchcraft in 1652 in the German region of Franconia. At the heart of the trial lay two competing narratives about Margaretha's identity: one begun by her neightbor, Leonhard Gackstatt about Margaretha being a harming witch; the other, maintained by Margaretha, that she was not. I show how Margaretha used a range of cultural resources and narrative strategies to define herself as not a witch. I also argue that we can interpret her testimony as doing memory work relating to her experience of the Thirty Years War, and as an example of early modern self-fashioning.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | magic, witch, witchcraft accusation, witch trial, sweeping-out ritual, flea-swarm, angel, angelic visitation, prophecies, story, narrative, identity, self-fashioning, Margaretha Horn, Protokollmitschriften |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2019 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:18 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/24897 |
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