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Chapter 15

Wars and Violence: Exclusion, Expulsion, Persecution, Survival

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Sources

  1. Hans Baldung Grien, Witches’ Coven (1510)

  2. The Commander of Imperial Jewry—Josel von Rosheim (c. 1480–1554)

  3. Letter by Anna Scharnschlager to Her Brother in Tyrol (c. 1535)

  4. Coronation of two Devils as a Sultan and the Pope (between 1544 and 1558)

  5. Observing the Ottomans—Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq in Istanbul (1552–62)

  6. Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1557)

  7. The Süleymaniye Mosque in Constantinople (1570)

  8. Regulating Jewish Life—Ordinance by Landgrave George I of Hesse (1585)

  9. Swiss Decree against Anabaptists (October 25, 1585)

  10. Believes about Witchcraft: “Hear a dreadful tale” (c. 1600)

  11. Rebels and Ottomans—The Habsburg Monarchy Makes Peace (1606)

  12. An Early Modern View of Islam (1608)

  13. The Bavarian Witchcraft Law (1611)

  14. Walpurgis Night (1626)

  15. Broadsheet “See How the Satanic Witches Gather” (c. 1630)

  16. A Skeptic Looks at Witch Hunting—Friedrich von Spee (1631)

  17. From the Martyrs’ Mirror: The Execution of Maria van Beckum and Her Sister-in-Law (17th century)

  18. The Execution of Maria van Beckum (1660)

  19. Historian Brian Levack on the Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe (2016)

  20. Historian Anthony Grafton on Race in the Renaissance (2011)

 
Wars and Violence: Thirty Years’ War
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