Keywords: Witches, body hair, wild woman, werewolves, sexuality The concept of shape-shifting and representations of human-animal hybrids in both literary sources and the visual arts captured the early modern European imagination. This phenomenon is particularly evident in the prevalence of pictorial prints featuring these creatures dated in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, produced in… Continue reading Monstrous Women: Hair, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Modern German Prints
An English Translation of the Nuremberg Broadsheet Keywords: Petter Stump, Peter Stump, Peter Stumpf, Peter Stumpp, werewolves Anonymous, warhafftige und wunderbarlich Newe zeitung von einen pauren der sich durch Zaüberey des tags siben stund zu ainen wolff verwandelt hat, und wie es darnach gericht ist worden durch den Colnischen Nachrichter, den letzen October Jm 1589… Continue reading The Execution of Werewolf, Peter Stump: A Translation
Primary Sources: Anonymous, Arrest memorable donné à l'encontre de Gilles Garnier lyonnois pour avoir en forme de loup garou devoré plusieurs enfans…, Lyon: Benoît Rigaud 1574. Anonymous, A True Discourse Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter, a most wicked sorcerer who in the likenes of a woolfe, committed many murders, continuing… Continue reading Selected Bibliography for Scholarly Research on the Early Modern Werewolf
Keywords: Werewolves, Renaissance, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Witchcraft, Criminals, Wolves The sixteenth century was marked by a period of significant change from the Renaissance, Age of Discovery, and the Reformation that created instability and anxiety. Together with the popularity of prints and superstitious beliefs fuelled by repeated war and death from disease and famine, sixteenth-century Germany was… Continue reading A Brief Historical Background to the Werewolf Myth in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Dana K Rehn 