Kors, Alan Charles; Peters, Edward, eds., Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (The Middle Ages Series, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
Text name(s): On Christian Teaching; Sermons; Etymologies, The Roman Penitential; A Warning to Bishops; Corrector, Sive Medicus; Didascalicon; The Sorceress of Berkeley; The Dectretum; Policraticus; The Heretics of Rheims; The Life of St. Justina; Summa contra gentiles; Summa theologiae; Quodlibet XI; Commentary on the Four Books of Sentences; The Mirror of True Penitence; Vox in Roma; Sorcery and the Inquisitors; Directorium inquisitorum; Letters of the Popes; Formicarius; Errores Gazariorum; Ut magorum et malificiorum errores; The Defender of Ladies; A Scourge for Heretical Witches; Summis desiderantes affectibus; Malleus Maleficarum; Terrible Case of Sorcery in Orleans; Die Emeis; Strix; On Diabolical Witchcraft; The Two Kinds of Sorcery and the Reformation; Witchcraft and the Reformation; De veneficiis; Tratado muy sotil y bien fundado; De praestigiis daemonum; On the Demon-Mania of Witches; The Confessions of the Chelmsford Witches; The Prosecutions at Trier; The Prosecutions in Scotland; Demonolatry
Number of pages of primary source text: 451
Author(s):
- William of Santa Sabina
- William of Malmesbury
- Weyer, Johann
- Tholosan, Claude
- Sprenger, James
- Remy, Nicholas
- Regino of Prüm
- Ralph of Coggeshall
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco
- Nider, Johannes
- Luther, Martin
- Kramer, Heinrich
- John of Salisbury
- John XXII
- Jacquier, Nicholas
- Jacobus de Voragine
- Isidore of Seville
- Innocent VII
- Hugh of Saint Victor
- Halitgar
- Hadrian VI
- Gregory IX
- Gratian
- Geiler, Johannes of Kaysersberg
- Eugenius IV
- Erasmus, Desiderius
- Eimeric, Nicolau
- Daneau, Lambert
- Castañega, Martín de
- Calvin, John
- Caesarius of Arles
- Burchard of Worms
- Bodin, Jean
- Bernardino of Siena
- Augustine of Hippo
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Alexander V
- Alexander IV
Dates: 400 - 1700
Archival Reference:
Original Language(s):
- Other
Translation:
- Translated into English.
Translation Comments:
Geopolitical Region(s):
- France
- Europe
- England
- British Isles
- Germany
- Greece
- Holy Roman Empire
- Iberian Peninsula
- Italy
- Scotland
- Spain
County/Region:
Record Types:
- Law - Legislation
- Inquisition - Heresy
- Hagiography
- Court Roll
- Letter
- Other
- Philosophic Work
- Sermons
- Theology - Doctrine
- Theology - Practical
Subject Headings:
- Papacy
- Magic / Witchcraft
- Law - Canon
- Heresy
- Church Fathers
- Philosophy / Theology
- Piety
- Religion - Institutional Church
- Women / Gender
Apparatus:
- Index
- Bibliography
- Introduction
Comments:
A collection of documents chronicling the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe. As a second edition, this book has expanded its scope from that of the first edition (which dealt with witchcraft from 1100-1700). Many of the documents have been newly translated for this edition. The collection contains trial records, inquisitors’ reports, witches’ confessions, and excerpts from the theological works of Martin Luther, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes. Contains explanatory notes, introductory essays, all of which have been revised to reflect the modern scholarship on witchcraft. A comprehensive examination of witchcraft, this book is a valuable source for the study of the development of witchcraft, demonology, and persecution.
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Cataloger: cdb; mk
