Nicole Bettlé

Nicole Janine Bettlé (born October 23, 1969 in Basel ) is a Swiss historian . It deals with the history of culture and mentality and in particular with historical fear and behavior research . Her main themes include the witch hunt and the Reformation .

Life

Nicole Bettlé studied history and modern German literature at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . From 2010 to 2011 she completed a research year at Saarland University as a scholarship holder of the Swiss National Science Foundation . Bettlé received her doctorate in general and Swiss modern history under Volker Reinhardt in 2011 . Her dissertation entitled When Saturn Eats Its Children. Child witch trials and their importance as a crisis indicator. With special consideration of the Swiss child witch and witch trials of the 15th – 18th centuries. Century was published as a book in 2013.

research

With her dissertation, Bettlé wrote a reference work on the history of witch children . In total, she analyzed over four hundred cases, including around 130 criminal proceedings involving Swiss witch children, which after long taboos find their way into modern research in this way. She is the first historian to investigate the child witch trials in Switzerland. Taking into account of cultural and mental history of the time it provides the example of the witch children is under what socio-cultural , demographic and economic conditions or due to their religious and legal policy models a society is willing to sacrifice members of the next generation, and what mechanisms cause this Determine human behavior, which appears across epochs, although it contradicts the principles of humanity and at the same time endangers the conservation of the species.

Publications

• When Saturn eats its children. Child witch trials and their importance as a crisis indicator . Lang, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-0343-1251-6 (= Freiburg studies on the early modern period , edited by Volker Reinhardt , volume 15, also a dissertation at the University of Friborg 2012).
• Fear in the Confederation . (Licensed thesis) GRIN Verlag München u. a. 2006, BoD ISBN 978-3-638-89646-7 .
• Melancholy and its effects using the example of Martin Luther . (Student thesis) GRIN Verlag München u. a. 2005, BoD ISBN 978-3-638-92302-6 .
• Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1353) - A brief overview . (Essay) GRIN Verlag München u. a. 2004, BoD ISBN 978-3-638-95151-7 .

Web links

• Conference report, H-Soz-u-Kult (Humanities - Social and Cultural History) Specialist forum of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin, on the scientific study conference of the Working Group Interdisciplinary Witch Research (AKIH) "Witches Children - Children's Gangs - Street Children" in Weingarten (20. -23 October 2010).
• Contribution to the media service portal Catholic Church Switzerland: Witch children in Switzerland, 23 July 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ infoclio.ch ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Reiner Diederichs: The witch child Meretlein in Keller's Grünem Heinrich or the dangerousness of Christian over-zeal , in: Gonçalo Vilas-Boas, Maria Teresa Martins de Oliveira (ed.): Macht in der Deutschschweizer Literatur , Frank & Timme 2012, ISBN 978-3 -86596-411-3 , p. 92
3. ↑ Urs Hafner in: Swiss National Science Foundation - Horizons, March 2011, pdf ( memento of the original from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Hexenkinder in Switzerland , SRF Radion June 14, 2011 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Witches' children in Switzerland , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 9, 2013