Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 657 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511626746
Content:
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
Content:
Introduction -- Authors -- Purpose of the work -- Composition and publication of the work -- Outline of the work -- Sources -- Disputed questions -- Intellectual context -- Role of women in sorcery -- Historical background -- Overall assessment of the Malleus -- Suggestions for further reading -- Notes on the translation -- Method of making references to the text -- Sources not from canon law -- Citations of canon law -- Outlining of the disputed questions -- Remarks on certain words in the translation -- Difficulties with grammatical gender -- The hammer of witches (Malleus maleficarum)
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521747875
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Institoris, Heinrich, 1430 - 1505 The hammer of witches Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009 ISBN 9780521747875
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Hexenglaube
;
Geschichte 1487
;
Deutschland
;
Hexenprozess
;
Geschichte 1487
;
Quelle
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511626746
URL:
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Author information:
Mackay, Christopher S. 1962-
