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1 online resource (409 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction ; PART I Witchcraft and magic in the ancient world; 1 The witch of Endor ; 2 A sorcery trial in the second century CE ; 3 Curse tablets against Roman charioteers ; 4 Apuleius: the power of witches |
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5 Horace: Canidia as a witch figure 6 Love magic in antiquity ; 7 St Augustine: demonic power in early Christianity ; PART II The medieval foundations of witch-hunting; 8 Canon law and witchcraft ; 9 St Thomas Aquinas: scholasticism and magic ; 10 The trial of Dame Alice Kyteler, 1324 |
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11 Nicholas Eymeric: magic and heresy, 1376 12 The University of Paris: a condemnation of magic, 1398 ; 13 Johannes Nider: an early description of the witches' sabbath, 1437; 14 Heinrich Kramer: Malleus maleficarum, 1486 ; PART III Witch beliefs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 15 Lambert Daneau: Protestantism and witchcraft, 1574 |
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16 Henri Boguet: the threat of witchcraft, 1602 17 Nicolas Remy: the Devil's mark and flight to the sabbath, 1595; 18 MartÃn Del Rio: the maleficia of witches, 1600 ; 19 William Perkins: good and bad witches, 1608 ; 20 Francesco Maria Guazzo: the pact with the Devil, 1608 |
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21 Richard Bernard: The Demonic Pact in England, 1630 22 Pierre de Lancre: dancing and sex at the sabbath, 1612 ; 23 Cotton Mather: the apocalypse and witchcraft, 1692 ; 24 James Hutchison: children, the covenant, and witchcraft, 1697; PART IV The trial and punishment of witches; 25 Innocent VIII: papal inquisitors and witchcraft, 1484 |
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26 Heinrich Kramer: the torture of accused witches, 1486 |
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Print version record |
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Witchcraft -- History -- Sources
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Magic -- History -- Sources
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Magic
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Witchcraft
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315715292 |
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1315715295 |
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