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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2013  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS: THOMAS WILLARD ROBISHEAUX, L’ULTIMA STREGA, MILANO-TORINO: BRUNO MONDATORI, 2013. 345 P. .

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  Abstract:  The work under review here - L’ultima strega, whose most recent edition was published in March 2013, translated into Italian by Pierluigi Micalizzi from the original that came out under the title The Last Witch of Langenburg. Murder in a German Village in 2009 - aims to reconstitute the destiny of the last witch from the German region of Hohenlohe, with all the implications and impact that her trial created. Retracing the narrative thread of the stories surrounding Anna Elisabeth Schmieg’s case of 1672, which are still in circulation, the author raises a series of questions: Who was Anna Schmieg? What was the course of her life? Why did she come to be suspected of witchcraft? What materials were examined by the experts in her case? Or why were the names of important personalities from that time mentioned in the case of a witch from Hürden? What made them get involved? The answers shed light on a murder story, the story of a family, of a community and an era.  
         
     
         
         
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