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Social Media Overview. General Resources. Terms and Conditions. Privacy Statement. Browse Our Titles. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Author: Liv Helene Willumsen. Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total.
The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.
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Its primary audience is scholars of early modern witchcraft, but it will also be of interest to historians of the law, popular culture, and the regions it covers. In: Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. Her detailed analysis of court records provides new data on execution rates and gender biases and her comparative approach allows us to see trends between two countries which both experienced severe witchcraft persecution.
