The Science of Demons (eBook, PDF)

Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil
Redaktion: Machielsen, Jan

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351333658
• Artikelnr.: 58838004

Autorenporträt

Jan Machielsen is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

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 de 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
powöana 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