| Description |
viii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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[Sources of medieval history] |
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Sources of medieval history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
I. Witchcraft in Christendom, 1100-1250. Gratian: A warning to bishops, the Canon Episcopi (1140) ; William of Malmesbury: The witch of Berkeley (1140) ; John of Salisbury: A Twelfth-Century sceptic (1154) ; Caesarius of Heisterbach: The demons of the Knight (1120-1235) ; Ralph of Coggeshall: The witch of Rheims (1176-1180) ; Pope Gregory IX: The witches of Stedlingerland (1232) -- II. St. Thomas Aquinas and the nature of evil. From the Summa contra Gentiles: Magic and the world of nature ; From the Summa theologica: The demons and man ; From Quodlibet XI: Witchcraft and sexual impotence ; From the Commentary on the four books of sentences; Witchcraft and Exorcism -- III. The papacy, the inquisition and the early witch-finders. Pope Alexander IV: Magic and the Inquisition (1258) ; William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina: Magic and the Inquisition (1320) ; Pope John XXII: Magic and tien Inquisition (1326) ; Nicholas Eymeric: Heresy, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition (1376) ; The Inquisition of Toulouse: The Witches' Sabbath (Fourteenth Century) ; Pope Eugenius IV: Two letters on the pressing danger (1434-1437) ; Johannes Nider: The Formicarius, folklore, and theology (1437). |
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IV. The hammer of witches. Pope Innocent VIII: Summis desiderantes, the "Witch-Bull" (1484) ; Heinrich Krämer and Jacob Sprenger: The Malleus Maleficarum (1486) ; Pope Alexander VI: The pursuit of witches in Lombardy (1501) -- V. The witch-persecutions of the sixteenth century. Martin Luther: Witchcraft and the Reformation ; Jean Calvin: Witchcraft and the Reformation ; Jean Bodin: The witches and the law (1580) ; The persecutions at Trier (1581-1593) ; The persecution in Scotland (1591) ; The confessions of the Chelmsford witches, England (1566) ; Nicholas Rémy: The evidence of witchcraft (1584) -- VI. Witchcraft in the seventeenth century. The persecution at Bonn ; The persecutions at Würzburg 91629) ; The persecutions at Bamberg (1628) ; The devils of Loudun (1636) ; The trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652) ; Cotton Mather: Witchcraft in North America (1689) ; Richard Bovet: Demonology and dilettantism (1684) ; Henry Moore and Joseph Glanvil: Witchcraft and philosophical spiritualism -- VII. Scepticism, doubt and disbelief in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reginald Scot: Credulity and witchcraft (1689) ; Michel de Montaigne: Ignorance and witchcraft ; Benedict de Spinoza: Reason, man, and the Devil ; Alonso Salazar de Frias: The Grand Inquisitor of Spain on witchcraft and delusion ; Thomas Hobbes: Demonology as unsound philosophy ; Friedrich Spee: A Jesuit criticizes the persecutions (1631) ; The recantation of the Salem jurors (1693) ; Pierre Bayle: Superstition and the imagination ; Balthasar Bekker: Rational theology and witchcraft (1691). |
| Summary |
This text contains highlights from such influential texts as the Malleus Maleficarum, a first-person account of witch accusations and torture, and various edicts from witch-hating popes. In addition, the black and white photographs of statuary, woodcuts, and paintings are very helpful. |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- Sources.
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Middle Ages -- Sources.
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Occultism -- history. (DNLM)D009781Q000266
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Middle Ages. (OCoLC)fst01020301
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Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Hekserij.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Peters, Edward, 1936- compiler.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kors, Alan Charles. Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [1972] (OCoLC)560338607 |
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Online version: Kors, Alan Charles. Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [1972] (OCoLC)609295677 |
| ISBN |
0812276450 |
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9780812276459 |
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0812210638 |
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9780812210637 |
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