"By Wit of Woman" is a Merchmont adventure novel set in Hungary. It is a fast-moving story centered around the affairs of state, kidnapping, and forbidden love. Its contents include: From Beyond The Pale - A Chess Opening - My Plan of Campaign - Madame D' Artelle - A Night Adventure - Gareth - Gareth's Adventure - Count Karl - I Come To Terms With Madame - A Dramatic Stroke - Plain Talk - His Excellency Again - Getty Ready - I Elope - An Embarrassing Drive - A Wisp of Ribbon - In The Dead of Night - The Cost of Victory - A Tragi-Comedy - My Arrest - His Excellency To The Rescue - Colonel Katona Speaks - A Greek Gift-What The Duke Meant - On The Threshold - Face To Face - "This Is Gareth" - The Colonel's Secret-A Singular Truce - The End.

Few women of her time lived to see their name in print. But Katherine was no ordinary woman. She was Sir Walter Raleigh’s mother. This is her story.

Includes biographies of selected American women choral conductors.

Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women’s voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women’s confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical elements, and a systematic comparison between the countries shows strong similarities regarding the impact of specific ideas about witchcraft, use of pressure and torture, the turning point of the trial, and the verdict and sentence. This volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of witchcraft, witchcraft trials, transnationality, cultural exchanges, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.