The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft : theology and popular belief / Hans Peter Broedel.
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-
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Manchester University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Studies in early modern European history.
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Table of Contents:
- Contested categories
- Origins and arguments
- The inquisitors' devil
- Misfortune, witchcraft, and the will of God
- Witchcraft: the formation of belief
- part one
- Witchcraft: the formation of belief
- part two
- Witchcraft as an expression of female sexuality.