Constructing witchcraft in early modern denmark. Emotions, Gender and Crime
The Carlsberg Foundation's 'Semper Ardens' Fellowships within the Humanities and Social Sciences | 09/04/2019
By Louise Nyholm Kallestrup | The study is built around the thesis that witchcraft was constructed by means of a range of media in which gender, emotions and experience acted as important drivers, and in which Christian IV’s notion of what constituted a ‘good’ Lutheran king were centre stage. At this interface, the persecution of those suspected of witchcraft was not simply possible, but unavoidable.