‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the Construction of Witchcraft

Theology and Popular Belief

AvHans Peter Broedel

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Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking. This, the first book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual word of its authors.Like all witch-theorists, Institoris and Sprenger constructed their witch out of a constellation of pre-existing popular beliefs and learned traditions. Therefore, to understand the Malleus, one must also understand the contemporary and subsequent debates over the reality and nature of witches. This book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic text, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore remained influential long after alternatives were forgotten. Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has important implications for fifteenth-century witchcraft theory.This is a fascinating work on the Malleus Maleficarum and will be essential to students and academics of late medieval and early modern history, religion and witchcraft studies.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-07-19
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781847795670
Förlag:Manchester University Press
Serie:Studies in Early Modern European History

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Hans Peter Broedel is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College, New York

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Broedel has provided an excellent study, not only of the Malleus and its authors, but just as importantly, of the intellectual context in which the Malleus must be set and the theological and folk traditions to which it is, in many ways, an heir. Peter Maxwell-Stuart, St Andrews University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction2. Authors and arguments3. The inquisitors’ Devil4. Misfortune, witchcraft and the will of god5. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part one -- evidence and interpretation6. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part two7. Witchcraft as an expression of female sexualityBibliography

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