LEADER 03572nam 2200517 450 001 9910287936303321 005 20230621140159.0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526137814 035 $a(CKB)4100000006999954 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33175 035 $a(DE-B1597)660664 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526137814 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006999954 100 $a20181014h20182003 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft $etheology and popular belief /$fHans Peter Broedel 210 $cManchester University Press$d2003 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (209 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in early modern European history 300 $aFirst published: 2003. 311 08$aPrint version: 1847795676 311 08$aPrint version: 152613781X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aWhat was witchcraft? Were witches real? How should witches be identified? How should they be judged? Towards the end of the middle ages these were serious and important questions - and completely new. Between 1430 and 1500, a number of learned 'witch-theorists' attempted to provide the answers to such questions, and of these perhaps the most famous are the Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Institoris and Jacob Sprenger, the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, or The Hammer of Witches. The Malleus is widely recognised as an important medieval text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet as a source the Malleus presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and cannot be said to be representative of late medieval learned thinking in general. This, the first book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual world of its authors. Like all witch-theorists, Institoris and Sprenger constructed their witch out of a constellation of pre-existing popular beliefs and learned traditions. Therefore, to understand the Malleus, one must also understand the contemporary and subsequent debates over the reality and nature of witches. Ultimately, this book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic text, with a view of witches very different from that of competing authors, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore remained influential long after alternatives were forgotten. Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has important implications for fifteenth-century witchcraft theory. This is a fascinating work on the Malleus and will be essential to students and academics of late medieval and early modern history, religion and witchcraft studies. 410 0$aStudies in early modern European history. 606 $aWitchcraft$xHistory$yTo 1500 610 $amaleficarum 610 $awitchcraft 610 $awitches 610 $aGod 610 $aHeresy 610 $aSuperstition 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory 676 $a133.4309024 700 $aBroedel$b Hans Peter$0800719 801 0$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910287936303321 996 $aThe Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft$92265959 997 $aUNINA