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4 days ago · Natàlia Garriga, the Minister of Culture of the Generalitat, the autonomous government of the Catalonia region in northeast Spain that includes Barcelona, emphasized last Saturday during a press announcement the importance of this conference in generating fresh perspectives to examine women’s history in the context of witch hunts.
1 day ago · May 25, 2024, 5:02 a.m. ET. For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living creatures ...
1 day ago · Witchcraft, as most commonly understood in both historical and present-day communities, is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic or supernatural powers to inflict harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread ...
4 days ago · In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women suspected of witchcraft, triggering the most brutal witch-hunt in English history. 1603: the death of Queen Elizabeth I, the return of the Black Plague, the rise of Shakespeare, piracy, witchcraft and the birth of the Stuart era by Christopher Lee
15 hours ago · The UN reports that women’s representation in UN-led peace processes stood at barely 16% in 2022, “a further drop compared to 19 per cent in 2021 and 23 per cent in 2020”. This report demonstrated that this alarming trend is most apparent in ethnic conflicts. Nationalist discourse tends to mobilise women’s bodies.
1 day ago · John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.
4 days ago · Women, Agency and the Law, 1300-1700. London, Pickering & Chatto, 2013, ISBN: 9781848933842; 240pp.; Price: £60.00. This well-crafted volume of ten essays is an important contribution to the growing body of research on women and law in England the pre-modern period. Each essay examines a different aspect of women’s interactions with the law ...
