Dear Cecilia
What a fascinating phenomenon. Unfortunately, I'm not writing to
provide information but to ask a question, or two, on behalf of some
students in an undergraduate women in European history course. In
tutorials this week we were dealing with witches and the witchcraze, and
as I was reminding them that the devil was always characterized as male I
mentioned your findings, having just read my email before the class. They
were fascinated by this, and asked a couple of question which I promised
to pass on. If you don't mind sharing your discoveries in a little more
detail, they were curious as to whether these depictions were all
produced in a particular geographical area, and whether they fall into a
particular time period.
Thanks from all of us
Lara Hinchberger
PhD candidate
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
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