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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009284203321

Autore

Bailey Michael D.

Titolo

Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath / / Michael D. Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, PA : , : Penn State University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9780271089492

0271089490

9780271089515

0271089512

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.) : 1 map

Collana

Magic in History Sourcebooks ; ; 3

Disciplina

133.43093634

Soggetti

HISTORY / Medieval

Western Alps

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Report on witchcraft in Valais / Hans Fründ -- So that the errors of magicians and witches... / Claude Tholosan -- Errors of the Gazarii / Anonymous -- Anthill / Johannes Nider -- The Vauderie of Lyon / Anonymous -- A pair of fifteenth-century trials.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explores the western European idea of the witches' sabbath, based on translations of five texts dating from the 1430s, and examines how these texts went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come"--