| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This comparative study focuses on witch persecution in the catholic and protestant territories in early modern Germany. Using the catholic Mainz and the protestant electoral Palatinate as case studies, the mutual interdependencies between the rulers and the ruled are explored. In the bishopric of Mainz as a catholic territory the local officials had no other choice than to concede to the will of the villagers who were eager to punish suspected witches. In the protestant electoral Palatinate however, the ruler never had given up the central control over criminal justice. In consequence, no notable witch persecution occurred. In order to impose their desire for witch persecution upon the ruler, the subordinates used the argument that punishing witches was part of the ruler’s duties whose power was thought to be given by God to protect his people. This logic may even have benefited the ruler and contributed to legitimize their control over the communities which were once autonomous.
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