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dc.contributor.authorToivo, Raisa Maria
dc.contributor.authorWillumsen, Liv Helene
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-05T11:05:04Z
dc.date.available2022-08-05T11:05:04Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-20
dc.description.abstractThe article uses narratology as a tool to examine the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Finland and the area of Finnmark, Northern Norway, to analyse how experience as a category of knowledge and expression surfaces in original court records. This article focuses on courtroom discourse in witchcraft trials: the interrogation, what the accused confessed to in terms of ideas about witchcraft, and how the personal and collective experience of witchcraft may be traced in court record narratives. A narratological approach to courtroom discourse provides an understanding of the legal practice, contextual conditions, and complexity of the entire trial. By focusing on the confession as a narrative, the analysis unearths the ideas about witchcraft expressed by the individual accused person as well as the echo of the questions posed during interrogation, but also a personalized approach traced by features of orality. Thirdly, the narrative voices that we found were used to investigate how they all contribute to the narrative by exchanging information, knowledge, and interpretation so that, eventually, they create a shared understanding of the experience of witchcraft – or lack thereof.en_US
dc.identifier.citationToivo, Willumsen. A narratological approach to witchcraft trial records: creating experience. Scandinavian Journal of History. 2022;47(1):39-61en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2023992
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03468755.2021.2014953
dc.identifier.issn0346-8755
dc.identifier.issn1502-7716
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/25991
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalScandinavian Journal of History
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleA narratological approach to witchcraft trial records: creating experienceen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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