Witches, Female Weather Makers, and Poisoners in the Carolingian Empire
Christoph Galle
&lt;?page nr="201"?&gt;Abstract The question about the role of women within medieval societies associatively makes one think witches who allegedly were up to mischief by using poison or all kinds magic inflict maliciously harm on other people. But this impression results too much from an uncritical reception such propagandistic conceptions that arose later and early modern witch-hunt ideology. This cliché neither does justice general situation nor can it be transferred entire Middle Ages, as a representative view into Carolingian empire eighth ninth centuries shows.
Mediävistik