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Demons of Urban Reform

Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430-1530

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Laura Stokes

    1. Department of History, Stanford University, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 1-9

    2. Evil by Any Other Name: Defining Witchcraft

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 10-33

  3. Witch Trials in the Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-36
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    2. Basel: Territorialization and Rural Autonomy

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 37-49

    3. Nuremberg: The Malleus that Never Struck

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 50-61

    4. Lucerne: Urban Witch Hunters

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 62-77

  4. A Revolution in Criminal Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Between Two Worlds: Fifteenth-Century Justice at the Threshold of the Early Modern

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 81-103

    3. The Advancing Death Penalty and the Re-imagining of Magical Crimes

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 104-125

  5. Reforming Zeal and Persecution in Lucerne

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Urban Reform and Social Control

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 129-153

    3. Witchcraft, Sodomy, and the Demonization of Crime

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 154-173

    4. Conclusion

      • Laura Stokes
      Pages 174-185

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 186-235
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A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's criminal procedure on one hand, and between witchcraft fears and social control on the other.

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  • Department of History, Stanford University, USA

    Laura Stokes

About the author

LAURA PATRICIA STOKES Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University in California, USA. She has previously published articles on the integration of torture into ordinary judicial procedure and the development of the witch stereotype during the fifteenth century.

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