The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft : theology and popular belief /
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 ans...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Studies in early modern European history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Authors and arguments
- 3. The inquisitors' Devil
- 4. Misfortune, witchcraft and the will of god
- 5. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part one
- evidence and interpretation
- 6. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part two
- 7. Witchcraft as an expression of female sexuality
- Bibliography.