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The "Malleus Maleficarum" and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief (Studies in Early Modern European History) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The "Malleus Maleficarum" and the Construction of WitchcraftAlthough The "Malleus" is recognized as an important medieval text, as a source it presents difficulties of contextual understanding and cannot be said to be representative of late medieval learned thinking. This study is an introduction to this work and to the conceptual world of its authors.
Full description- Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 03 April 2004
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | European History | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Witchcraft & Wicca | Comparative Religion | Witchcraft
- ISBN 13: 9780719064418 ISBN 10: 0719064414
- Sales rank: 325,247
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Full description for The "Malleus Maleficarum" and the Construction of Witchcraft
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.
