Publications

Publication details [#46681]

Macha, Jürgen, Elvira Topalovic, Iris Hille, Uta Nolting and Anja Wilke, eds. 2004. Deutsche Kanzleisprache in Hexenverhörprotokollen der Frühen Neuzeit. Bd 1: Auswahledition. Band 2: Kommentierte Bibliographie zur regionalen Hexenforschung. De Gruyter. XXVI+522 pp; 181 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

German

Keywords

historical linguistics | interrogation | legalese | official language

Language as a subject

Austrian | German | Swiss

Annotation

This corpus of transcribed witch interrogations trials (dated between 1580 and1650), taken from Swiss, German, and Austrian archives, provides a unique opportunity for investigating regional official language.