Compendium Maleficarum
Title | Compendium Maleficarum PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Maria Guazzo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2012-04-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0486121100 |
Extraordinary document (1608) on witchcraft and demonology offers striking insight into early 17th century mind. Serious discussions of witches’ powers, poisons, crimes, more. Rare limited edition.
Compendium Maleficarum
Title | Compendium Maleficarum PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Maria Guazzo |
Publisher | Book Tree |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781585092468 |
Were witches real in the Middle Ages? This handbook on witchcraft, first published in 1628, claims to expose the entire practice and profession of witchcraft. Was used as support in the accusation of witches at the time, although we can recognize much of it today as being paranoid superstition by religious authorities. The book is valuable because it allows one to view the extreme superstition surrounding witchcraft at the time, and to better understand the degree of persecution that resulted.
Malleus Maleficarum- Montague Summers Translation
Title | Malleus Maleficarum- Montague Summers Translation PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob Sprenger |
Publisher | Martino Fine Books |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9781891396557 |
2011 Reprint of 1928 Edition. The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for "The Hammer of Witches") is a famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany in 1487. Jacob Sprenger is also often attributed as an author. The main purpose of the Malleus was to attempt to systematically refute arguments claiming that witchcraft does not exist, discredit those who expressed skepticism about its reality, to claim that witches were more often women than men, and to educate magistrates on the procedures that could find them out and convict them. This edition of Malleus Maleficarum is here translated into English for the first time. It contains a note upon the bibliography of the Malleus Maleficarum and includes bibliographical references. Translated, with introductions, bibliography and notes by Montague Summers.
Compendium Maleficarum
Title | Compendium Maleficarum PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Maria Guazzo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Demonology |
ISBN |
The Hammer of Witches
Title | The Hammer of Witches PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher S. Mackay |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 957 |
Release | 2009-05-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110739371X |
The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and detailed analysis of the Latin text, is the only complete English version available, and the most reliable. Now available in a single volume, this key text is at last accessible to students and scholars of medieval history and literature. With detailed explanatory notes and a guide to further reading, this volume offers a unique insight into the fifteenth-century mind and its sense of sin, punishment and retribution.
Compendium Maleficarum
Title | Compendium Maleficarum PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Maria Guazzo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | Demonology |
ISBN |
Compendium Maleficarum
Title | Compendium Maleficarum PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Maria Guazzo |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780404184131 |
Extraordinary document (1608) on witchcraft and demonology offers striking insight into early 17th century mind. Serious discussions of witches' powers, poisons, crimes, more.