The science of demons : early modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil / / edited by Jan Machielsen

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge Taylor & Francis, , 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 pages)
• Disciplina: 133.4094
• Soggetto topico: Demonology - Europe - History - 17th century
• Persona (resp. second.): MachielsenJohannes M. <1984->
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's note -- Introduction: The science of demons -- PART 1: Beginnings -- 1. The inquisitor's demons: Nicolau Eymeric's Directorium inquisitorum -- 2. Promoter of the sabbat and diabolical realism: Nicolas Jacquier's Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum -- PART 2: The first wave of printed witchcraft texts -- 3. The bestselling demonologist: Heinrich Institoris's Malleus maleficarum -- 4. Lawyers versus inquisitors: Ponzinibio's De lamiis and Spina's De strigibus -- 5. The witch-hunting humanist: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's Strix -- PART 3: The sixteenth-century debate -- 6. 'Against the devil, the subtle and cunning enemy': Johann Wier's De praestigiis daemonum -- 7. The will to know and the unknowable: Jean Bodin's De La Démonomanie -- 8 .Doubt and demonology: Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft -- 9. Demonology and anti-demonology: Binsfeld's De confessionibus and Loos's De vera et falsa magia -- 10. A royal witch theorist: James VI's Daemonologie -- 11. Demonology as textual scholarship: Martin Delrio's Disquisitiones magicae -- PART 4: Demonology and theology -- 12. 'Of ghostes and spirites walking by nyght': Ludwig Lavater's Von Gespänsten -- 13. A Spanish demonologist during the French Wars of Religion: Juan Maldonado's Traicté des anges et demons -- 14. Scourging demons with exorcism: Girolamo Menghi's Flagellum daemonum -- 15. The ambivalent demonologist: William Perkins's Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft -- 16. Piety and purification: The anonymous Czarownica powołana -- PART 5: Demonology and law -- 17. An untrustworthy reporter: Nicolas Remy's Daemonolatreiae libri tres. ; 18. The mythmaker of the sabbat: Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons -- 19. An expert lawyer and reluctant demonologist: Alonso de Salazar Frías, Spanish Inquisitor -- Critical editions and English translations of demonological texts -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different times and places answered these questions differently and disagreed bitterly. The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. By examining individual authors from across the continent, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and during the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how careers and identities were constructed out of battles against them - or against those who granted them too much power. Together, contributors chart the history of the devil from his emergence during the 1300s as a threatening figure - who made pacts with human allies and appeared bodily - through to the comprehensive but controversial demonologies of the turn of the seventeenth century, when European witch-hunting entered its deadliest phase. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The science of demons
• ISBN: 0-203-70251-4; 1-351-33364-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910861015403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II