역사적 집단 광기 현상의 실체와 여성사적 재조명 : 중세 말 근대 초기 유럽사회의 마녀사냥을 중심으로 = The History of Collective Madness and Gender Politics : A Study on the Witch-Hunting between the late Middle Ages and early Modern Europe

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting between the late middle ages and early modern Europe. It is particularly focusing on the relationships between the gender and witch-hunting. Between the late 14th and the early 17th century more than one hundred thousand people, most of them women, were tried for the crime of witchcraft. They were prosecuted by secular and ecclesiastical courts in different parts of Europe. The geographical and chronological distribution of witch hunting cases throughout Europe was extremely uneven. There was not one but many causes underlying the strange and terrible phenomenon of the witch hunts. There was, however, a strong correlation between belief in witchcraft and religious belief. The rise of heretical movements had influence on the witchcraft. At the beginning of the witch hunting the accused were clergymen or other influential people. Accusations, however, had spread more widely to the populace.
The witch hunting was an extremely complicated and diverse historical event. It reflected both elite and popular ideas about witchcraft. It also had both religious and social dimensions. The prosecution of women as witches occurred in a society in which men exercised substantial authority over women. The vulnerability of women also stemmed in part attitudes about women's sexuality and their role as mothers. Whatever the relevant factors, the response of Europeans in general, was to assume that women were peculiarly drawn to witchcraft and the devil. The history of the witch hunting provides the ideas about women, with fears about women and with the place of women in European society then.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 들어가는 말 = 74
• Ⅱ. 마녀 이미지 형성의 지적 배경과 마녀재판 = 77
• Ⅲ. 종교적 변화와 마녀사냥의 확산 = 84
• Ⅳ. 성적억압 기제로서의 마녀사냥 = 88
• Ⅴ. 나가는 말 = 93
• 참고문헌 = 94