The science of demons : early modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil

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

"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 an...

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Other Authors: Machielsen, Johannes M., 1984- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic.
Subjects:
1600-1699
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
History
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Table of 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.

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