Thomas Robisheaux est un historien dont le travail explore les complexités de l'Allemagne moderne ancienne. Il examine de manière critique le tissu social et la quête persistante d'ordre au sein de ses communautés rurales. Les recherches de Robisheaux offrent des perspectives profondes sur la dynamique et les défis de la vie durant cette ère historique transformative. Son approche éclaire les structures sous-jacentes qui ont façonné la société.
Exploring one of Europe's last witch panics, historian Thomas Robisheaux brings to life the story of an entire world caught between superstition and modernity in a high-stakes drama that led to charges of sorcery and witchcraft against an entire family.
Sixteenth-century Europeans launched a struggle for order with an intensity and urgency that finds no parallels in modern European history. For the rural societies of Germany, the early sixteenth century brought massive upheavals that eroded the basis of social, political, economic, and religious life. In this probing study of village life, based on rich manuscript sources from the Old County of Hohenlohe, the author seeks to understand how petty German princes, Lutheran pastors, and villagers struggled to create order out of their confusing world. He shows that the foundations for social stability so evident in Germany after 1648 were laid in the forgotten era of German history, in the years after the early Reformation and before the Thirty Years' War