WITCHCRAFT · Gender history and boundaries of witchcraft in the heart of Early Modern Europe
6РП — Действия „Мария Кюри“
- Период
- 2006-10-18 → 2008-10-17
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 211 637 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- EIF
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Накратко на български
Историята на вещиците в Европа се анализира чрез архивни документи, като например протоколи от съдебни процеси и описи на имуществото на обвинените. Това помага да се разберат религиозните, политическите и културните фактори, както и ролята на жените в обществото по това време.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Final Activity Report Summary - WITCHCRAFT (Gender History and boundaries of witchcraft in the heart of Early Modern Europe)
The main objective of this project on the history of witchcraft in Europe during the early modern period was to bring out all the material collected as primary sources in the archives, mainly in France and Germany and particularly in Lorraine and Alsace. With all the collected material, including witchcraft trials, evidence of cases in slander registers and inventories of accused people, the study revealed some conclusions about the intensity of witch hunting during this period in continental Europe along the Rhine River. The different influences of both French and German contexts brought to light new comments on this crucial phenomenon and started to draw a synthesis on this central subject which determined many aspects of the European history. The religious, political and cultural aspects appeared decisive in various ways according to the jurisdiction in question. The gender issues led to new perspectives on the place of women in society, as well as deviancies compared to orthodox practices. The result of this work was reported in different ways, especially through the participation in different conferences and meetings and via articles that were ready to be submitted to journals by the time of the project completion. The main achievement was the international conference, held in Oxford University, about the boundaries of witchcraft in the upper Rhine region. Information on this conference was published on http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/events/. This meeting, by gathering some of the most important specialists in the history of witchcraft, was a great opportunity to reveal new material and new approaches and to discuss them in comparison to other works on the same region and on other comparable regions.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
This project constitutes an original contribution to a major phenomenon in Early Modern Europe; the witch-hunt. The innovative aspect of such a project is the double approach combining Gender History with a European dimension with the strategic choice of a crucial region as my field of work, the region of Alsace.The originality of the project is to consider a region in the heart of Europe and at the heart of the question. The central region of Alsace is capital for the understanding of a phenomenon on a European scale. The witch craze that gained ground along the Rhine River and spread throughout Europe was particularly violent, despite the fact that, paradoxically there is no overall work on this subject.This boundary zone on the fringes of two worlds is an exceptional research laboratory by its wealth and the fact it is representative of a politically and religiously divided Europe. The special characteristics of a border zone, in political, religious and linguistic terms, add further important dimension s to the project.The approach of the phenomenon is turned towards gender history, not feminist in the militant sense, which could reduce its value in a broader historical context, but in the sense that it allows a vitally important aspect to be integrated into the understanding of the question: that of the power relations at work in interaction between men and women at the time.To succeed in this research, the choice of Oxford University is pertinent considering its exceptionally large number of historians. My work would be supervised and mentored by Robin Briggs and other senior academics involved as appropriate.This project has minimal infrastructure needs in some respects, since the work is essentially individual research. The crucial elements are library resources and archives.This work should be the opportunity to derive benefit from combined experiences, methods and skills, and would also contribute to forging links between research communities.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OXFORDКоординаторОбединеното кралство
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз