![]() ![]() Demonology and Anti-Demonology: Binsfeld’s De confessionibus and Loos’s De vera et falsa magiaġ0. Doubt and Demonology: Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraftĩ. The Will to Know and the Unknowable: Jean Bodin’s De La DémonomanieĨ. ‘Against the Devil, the Subtle and Cunning Enemy’: Johann Wier’s De praestigiis daemonumħ. The Witch-Hunting Humanist: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s StrixĦ. Lawyers versus Inquisitors: Ponzinibio’s De lamiis and Spina’s De strigibusĥ. The Bestselling Demonologist: Heinrich Institoris’s Malleus maleficarumĤ. Part 2: The First Wave of Printed Witchcraft Textsģ. Promoter of the Sabbat and Diabolical Realism: Nicolas Jacquier’s Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum The Inquisitor’s Demons: Nicolau Eymeric’s Directorium InquisitorumĢ. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe.ġ. 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. 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. 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. ![]() The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. ![]() 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. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. ![]()
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