The science of demons : early modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil /: early modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jan Machielsen.
• Editors: Machielsen, Johannes M, 1984-
• Contents: Introduction: The Science of Demons Jan Machielsen Part 1: Beginnings 1. The Inquisitor’s Demons: Nicolau Eymeric’s Directorium Inquisitorum ; Pau Castell Granados 2. Promoter of the Sabbat and Diabolical Realism: Nicolas Jacquier’s Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum ; Martine Ostorero Part 2: The First Wave of Printed Witchcraft Texts 3. The Bestselling Demonologist: Heinrich Institoris’s Malleus maleficarum ; Tamar Herzig 4. Lawyers versus Inquisitors: Ponzinibio’s De lamiis and Spina’s De strigibus ; Matteo Duni 5. The Witch-Hunting Humanist: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s Strix ; Walter Stephens Part 3: The Sixteenth-Century Debate 6. ‘Against the Devil, the Subtle and Cunning Enemy’: Johann Wier’s De praestigiis daemonum; Michaela Valente 7. The Will to Know and the Unknowable: Jean Bodin’s De La Démonomanie; Virginia Krause 8. Doubt and Demonology: Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft; Philip C. Almond 9. Demonology and Anti-Demonology: Binsfeld’s De confessionibus and Loos’s De vera et falsa magia; Rita Voltmer 10. A Royal Witch Theorist: James VI’s Daemonologie; P. G. Maxwell-Stuart 11. Demonology as Textual Scholarship: Martin Delrio’s Disquisitiones magicae; Jan Machielsen Part 4: Demonology and Theology 12. ‘Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght’: Ludwig Lavater’s Von Gespänsten ; Pierre Kapitaniak 13. A Spanish Demonologist During the French Wars of Religion: Juan de Maldonado’s Traicté des anges et demons; Fabián Alejandro Campagne 14. Scourging Demons with Exorcism: Girolamo Menghi’s Flagellum daemonum; Guido Dall’Olio 15. The Ambivalent Demonologist: William Perkins’s Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft ; Leif Dixon 16. Piety and Purification: The Anonymous Czarownica powołana; Michael Ostling Part 5: Demonology and Law 17. An Untrustworthy Reporter: Nicolas Remy’s Daemonolatreiae libri tres; Robin Briggs 18. The Mythmaker of the Sabbat: Pierre de Lancre’s Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais anges et démons; Thibaut Maus de Rolley and Jan Machielsen 19. An Expert Lawyer and Reluctant Demonologist: Alonso de Salazar Frías, Spanish Inquisitor; Lu Ann Homza Critical Editions and English Translations of Demonological Texts
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 133.4094; Demonology -- Europe -- History -- 17th century; Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 17th century; Supernatural -- History -- 17th century; Devil -- History of doctrines -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351333641; 9781351333658; 9781351333634; 9780203702512
• Related ISBNs: 9781138571815; 9781138571839
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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