The ‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the Construction of Witchcraft
Theology and Popular Belief
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2003
Summary
What was witchcraft? Were witches real? How should witches be identified? How should they be judged? Towards the end of the Middle Ages these were serious and important questions - and completely new. Between 1430 and 1500, a number of learned “witch-theorists” attempted to provide the answers to such questions and of these perhaps the most famous are the Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Institoris and Jacob Sprenger, the authors of the “Malleus Maleficarum” (The Hammer of Witches). The “Mal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719064418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719064414 |
| Author: | Hans Broedel |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Imprint: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Studies in Early Modern European History |
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Critics Review
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
Hans Broedel
Hans Peter Broedel is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College, New York
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