Talk:Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

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"Part of the historical background of this story is that "between 1625 and 1631, under the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, the Holy Roman Empire saw one of the biggest mass trials in European history, with an estimated 900 people executed in the Würzburg witch trials." How come? Katharina Kepler was acquitted in 1621, died in 1622. The Duchy of Württemberg unter Lutheran rule was a total different jurisdiction than Würzburg. Since Americans seem to be unable to unterstand anything about European history, you might as well claim that the witch trials of Salem (starting 1692) are the real backdrop of the story. And while this quote originates from a NYT review, the actual book is not much better regarding historical accuracy. It is a dull trivialization of historic events. All the intricacies of different Protestant factions (her son Johannes Kepler was in trouble because of what some saw as Calvinist leanings) or dominion (duchy vs. empire, imperical city vs. town vs. rural areas) are swept under the rug. Very little regard to the makeup of society is given (Katharina Kepler came from a privileged family - having town citizenship alone would have put her above 90 percent of the population). Katharina Kepler befriending a Jewish peddler seems more lika a woke Disneyfication than historic detail. Comedy? Satire? Only if you like to laugh out of your your own blissful ignorance. -- 2003:E5:1730:D02D:8CC0:75AF:F4F3:2D37 (talk) 11:10, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]