Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 264-83.
Chapter 7
Identify: Malleus maleficarum.
1. What factors might explain the witch hunts in early modern Europe? Are they all equally convincing?
2. Where did witch hunts seldom occur and where did they occur in great numbers? Why? In which countries did witch hunts cease the earliest? Where did they persist?
3. Why was witchcraft commonly associated with women?
4. How did witch hunts begin? What procedures were used at witch trials? How did small hunts develop into large-scale panics?
5. What is the significance of the illustration on p. 271?
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