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Title The science of demons : early modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil / edited by Jan Machielsen
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic
Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic.
Contents Introduction : the science of demons / Jan Machielsen -- Part I: Beginnings. The inquisitor's demons : Nicolau Eymeric's Directorium inquisitorum / Pau Castell Granados -- Promoter of the sabbat and diabolical realism : Nicolas Jacquier's Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum / Martine Ostorero -- Part II: The first wave of printed witchcraft texts. The bestselling demonologist : Heinrich Institoris's Malleus maleficarum / Tamar Herzig -- Lawyers versus inquisitors : Ponzinibio's De lamiis and Spina's De strigibus / Matteo Duni -- The witch-hunting humanist : Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's Strix / Walter Stephens -- Part III: The sixteenth century debate. 'Against the devil, the subtle and cunning enemy' : Johann Wier's De praestigiis daeonum / Michaela Valente -- The will to know and the unknowable : Jean Bodin's De La Démonomanie / Virginia Krause -- Doubt and demonology : Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft / Philip C.Almond -- Demonology and anti-demonology : Binsfeld's De confessionibus and Loos's De vera et falsa magia / Rita Voltmer -- A royal witch theorist : James VI's Daemonologie / P.G. Maxwell-Stuart -- Demonology as textual scholarship : Martin Delrio's Disquisitiones magicae / Jan Machielsen -- Part IV: Demonology and theology. 'Of ghostes and spirites walking by night' : Ludwig Lavater's Von Gespänsten / Pierre Kapitaniak -- A Spanish demonologist during the French Wars of Religion : Juan Maldonado's Traicté́ des anges et demons / Fabián Alejandro Campagne -- Scourging demons with exorcism : Girolamo Menghi's Flagellum daemonum / Guido Dall'Olio -- The ambivalent demonologist : William Perkins's Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft / Leif Dixon -- Piety and purification : the anonymous Czarownica powołana / Michael Ostling -- Part V: Demonology and law. An untrustworthy reporter : Nicolas Remy's Daemonolatreiae libri tres / Robin Briggs -- The mythmaker of the sabbat : Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons / Thibaut Maus De Rolley, Jan Machielsen -- An expert lawyer and reluctant demonologist : Alonso de Salazar Frías, Spanish Inquisitor / Lu Ann Homza
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Critical editions and English translations of demonological texts (pages [313]-315)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Jan Machielsen is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University
Print version record
Subject Demonology -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Supernatural -- History -- 17th century
Devil -- History of doctrines -- 17th century
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century.
Demonology
Devil -- History of doctrines
Supernatural
Witchcraft
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Machielsen, Johannes M., 1984- editor.
LC no. 2019053681
ISBN 9780203702512
0203702514
135133364X
9781351333658
1351333658
9781351333634
1351333631
9781351333641