Malleus Maleficarum
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Author |
: Christopher S. Mackay |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 957 |
Release |
: 2009-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107393714 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110739371X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hammer of Witches by : Christopher S. Mackay
The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and detailed analysis of the Latin text, is the only complete English version available, and the most reliable. Now available in a single volume, this key text is at last accessible to students and scholars of medieval history and literature. With detailed explanatory notes and a guide to further reading, this volume offers a unique insight into the fifteenth-century mind and its sense of sin, punishment and retribution.
Author |
: Hans Broedel |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2013-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847795670 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847795676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The ‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the construction of witchcraft by : Hans Broedel
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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.
Author |
: Heinrich Institoris |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2007-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000116720180 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Malleus Maleficarum by : Heinrich Institoris
This title offers a new translation of the medieval treatise on witchcraft, the Malleus Maleficarum, by the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Institoris.
Author |
: Ulinka Rublack |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198736776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198736770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Astronomer & the Witch by : Ulinka Rublack
In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one that takes us to the heart of his changing world.
Author |
: Francesco Maria Guazzo |
Publisher |
: Book Tree |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2004-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1585092460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781585092468 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Compendium Maleficarum by : Francesco Maria Guazzo
Were witches real in the Middle Ages? This handbook on witchcraft, first published in 1628, claims to expose the entire practice and profession of witchcraft. Was used as support in the accusation of witches at the time, although we can recognize much of it today as being paranoid superstition by religious authorities. The book is valuable because it allows one to view the extreme superstition surrounding witchcraft at the time, and to better understand the degree of persecution that resulted.
Author |
: Francesco Maria Guazzo |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2012-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486121109 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486121100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Compendium Maleficarum by : Francesco Maria Guazzo
Extraordinary document (1608) on witchcraft and demonology offers striking insight into early 17th century mind. Serious discussions of witches’ powers, poisons, crimes, more. Rare limited edition.
Author |
: Mike Rosen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1593622139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781593622138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Malleus Maleficarum by : Mike Rosen
In 1487, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger wrote the Malleus Maleficarum, the premiere manual for exposing, capturing, prosecuting, and burning witches used by every right-thinking European magistrate of the late middle ages. Cartoonist Mike Rosen has adapted this warm and uplifting tome which fueled a wave of witch-hunting that lasted for nearly two centuries and cost nearly 60,000 people (mostly women) their lives. The adaptation's tongue-in-cheek tone exposes a kind of paranoid thinking which exists to this day in some circles and answeres all of those nagging eternal questions; Do witches kill newborn babies for use in their rituals? Can they turn men into beasts? Can they steal mens' penises, collecting them in great numbers, to hide in, say, a bird's nest up in a tree, where they then move around like squiggly phallic snakes and eat corn and oats? Finally, most importantly, do witches have sexual relations with devils? How do they have sexual relations with devils? And could we hear some more about these sexual relations with devils? Nothing makes for a fun read like torture, murder, infanticide, and disembodied penises! Always fun and educational.
Author |
: Shana Mlawski |
Publisher |
: Tu Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1600609872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781600609879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hammer of Witches by : Shana Mlawski
Pursued by a secret witch-hunting arm of the Inquisition, 14-year-old bookmaker's apprentice Baltasar joins Columbus' expedition to escape and discovers secrets about his own past that his family had tried to keep hidden.
Author |
: Alan Charles Kors |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:164633681 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700 by : Alan Charles Kors
Author |
: Lara Apps |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2003-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719057094 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719057090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Male Witches in Early Modern Europe by : Lara Apps
This book critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. It shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition, and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalization of male witches by feminist and other historians.