UID:
almahu_9949385885702882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) :
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illustrations, map.
ISBN:
9780203702512
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0203702514
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135133364X
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9781351333658
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1351333658
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9781351333634
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1351333631
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9781351333641
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic
Content:
"Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different times and places answered these questions differently and disagreed bitterly. The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. By examining individual authors from across the continent, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and during the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how careers and identities were constructed out of battles against them -- or against those who granted them too much power. Together, contributors chart the history of the devil from his emergence during the 1300s as a threatening figure -- who made pacts with human allies and appeared bodily -- through to the comprehensive but controversial demonologies of the turn of the seventeenth century, when European witch-hunting entered its deadliest phase. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe"--
Note:
Critical editions and English translations of demonological texts (pages [313]-315).
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Introduction : the science of demons /
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The inquisitor's demons : Nicolau Eymeric's Directorium inquisitorum /
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Promoter of the sabbat and diabolical realism : Nicolas Jacquier's Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum /
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The bestselling demonologist : Heinrich Institoris's Malleus maleficarum /
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Lawyers versus inquisitors : Ponzinibio's De lamiis and Spina's De strigibus /
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The witch-hunting humanist : Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's Strix /
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'Against the devil, the subtle and cunning enemy' : Johann Wier's De praestigiis daeonum /
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The will to know and the unknowable : Jean Bodin's De La Démonomanie /
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Doubt and demonology : Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft /
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Demonology and anti-demonology : Binsfeld's De confessionibus and Loos's De vera et falsa magia /
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A royal witch theorist : James VI's Daemonologie /
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Demonology as textual scholarship : Martin Delrio's Disquisitiones magicae /
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'Of ghostes and spirites walking by night' : Ludwig Lavater's Von Gespänsten /
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A Spanish demonologist during the French Wars of Religion : Juan Maldonado's Traicté́ des anges et demons /
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Scourging demons with exorcism : Girolamo Menghi's Flagellum daemonum /
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The ambivalent demonologist : William Perkins's Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft /
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Piety and purification : the anonymous Czarownica powołana /
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An untrustworthy reporter : Nicolas Remy's Daemonolatreiae libri tres /
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The mythmaker of the sabbat : Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons /
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An expert lawyer and reluctant demonologist : Alonso de Salazar Frías, Spanish Inquisitor /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Science of demons. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2020 ISBN 9781138571815
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780203702512
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203702512
