Kings Vs. Witches (from Vol VI, Overlords)

Both these excerpts are from Women in a Time of Overlords, Vol VI in the Secret History of the Witches series.

Kings Vs. Witches I: Legendary Accounts

Kings Vs. Witches: Early Medieval Laws

Contents of Vol VI:
Conquest, slavery and serfdom. Spear Side against Spindle Side: patriarchal law. Gudrun, a Gothic Medea. Conversion by decree. Shrine destruction, flogging and enslaving pagans. The bishop's rod: the ethnic and sexual politics of canon law and penitential books. Culture wars against the diviners, "idolatry," and the Noce di Benevento. Missionaries on pagan frontiers. The prophetess Libusha. Kings vs. Witches: early persecutions. In the Frankish court: Fredegond and Brunhilde. Herbs, knots, and contraception. Indexing paganism. The First Reich, Vasconia and Saxony. Carolingian sexual politics, and attempts to keep women behind cloister walls. Pagans into sorcerers.


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