“The Renaissance demonologists couldn’t even imagine women’s absolute autonomy; for them, the freedom of those they accused of witchcraft had to be understood as part of a further subordination: they were necessarily under the Devil’s sway and therefore still subject to a masculine authority.”

“The Renaissance demonologists couldn’t even imagine women’s absolute autonomy; for them, the freedom of those they accused of witchcraft had to be understood as part of a further subordination: they were necessarily under the Devil’s sway and therefore still subject to a masculine authority.”

— Mona Chollet