The Causes of the Bamberg Witch Hunts 1623-32
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- Causes for the Great Witch Hunt in Bamberg
- Law
- 1532 The Cardina Law Code: justice was a local matter
- Conflict over how to treat/prosecute witches
- Created witch panic- difficult to control
- Politcal and judicial authority in Germany was fragmneted
- Limited legal framework
- 1548: a ruler of a region decided the religion for that religion
- 1532 The Cardina Law Code: justice was a local matter
- Governement
- No central control
- Difficult to maintain peace when panic broke out
- No authority capable to stop it
- 1548: a ruler of a region can decide the religion of that region
- No central control
- Maleficium/ Pact with the devil
- Fear of the devil
- Reformtion & Counter-Reformation
- Led people to believe that the Devils work is all around them
- Catholics preached violently anti-Proestwent messages
- Led people to believe that the Devils work is all around them
- Persecutionas and imprisonment for those who did not convert to Protestent in areas
- 1517: Martin Luther
- Protested againest Catholic church = Protestant Reformation
- Rips Europe apart espically HRE
- Believed to be works of the devil
- Protested againest Catholic church = Protestant Reformation
- Economic
- High taxes from war
- Inflation
- Prices increase
- Religious
- 1548 Act
- Without real central power it led to problems
- Situations like where Catholic leaders ruled over a region of majority Protestant
- Catholics, Calvinists and Lutherans living amongst each other
- Without real central power it led to problems
- 1548 Act
- War
- Thirty Years Wars
- Extreme cases of witchcraft occurred during the Thirty's War (1618-48)
- Armis devasted the areas of S Germany
- Econmic devastions, supplies decreased, poor harvests, inflation
- Led to a growing fear of witches as misfortune
- Econmic devastions, supplies decreased, poor harvests, inflation
- Thirty Years Wars
- Other
- HRE
- Geographical and religious mess
- Boundaries overlapped
- Geographical and religious mess
- Some ares had little no witch hunting, whereas had thousands of extreme cases
- Prosections took place in areas ruled by prince-bisophs
- Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen
- Prince-bisoph of Bamberg 1609
- Led to an increase of prosecutons
- issued a new ordinance of witchcraft which punished anyone practising magic
- Prince-bisoph of Bamberg 1609
- Weather
- Frost destroyed wine crops in 1629
- Little Ice Age
- HRE
- Law
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