The "Malleus Maleficarum" and the Construction of Witchcraft

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

出版者:Palgrave Macmillan

作者:Broedel, Hans Peter

页数:220

出版时间:2004-4

价格:$ 32.71

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780719064418

Shows the Malleus, a very well known and widely quoted medieval text, to be highly idiosyncratic, and unusual in its ideas, even among the texts of other contemporary witch-theorists. The first book to deal with the discourse of witchcraft among fifteenth-century theorists in its full complexity. Attempts to understand witchcraft as part of the Malleus' authors' wider intellectual world. Shows how contemporary scholars engaged in a lively debate over the nature of witchcraft. A further addition to MUP's highly regarded collection of books on witchcraft.