The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials: Northern Europe - Paperback

by LIV Helene Willumsen (Author)

Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

Author Biography

Liv Helene Willumsen is Professor Emerita of History, University of Tromsø (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway). PhD in History (Edinburgh, 2008). PhD in literature (Bergen, 2003). Her books include Witches of the North: Scotland and Finnmark (Leiden, 2013). She has written the exhibition texts of Steilneset Memorial, Vardø. She was awarded the Norwegian King's Medal of Merit in 2019.