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Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages (Magic in History)
Michael D. Bailey
Hardcover. Pennsylvania State University Press 2002-10.
ISBN 9780271022253
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Förlagets beskrivning
"The 15th century is more than any other the century of the persecution of
witches." So wrote Johan Huizinga in his book "Autumn of the Middle Ages".
Although Huizinga was correct in his observation, modern readers have tended to
focus on the more spectacular witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Nevertheless, it was during the late Middle Ages that the full stereotype of
demonic witchcraft developed in Europe, and this is the subject of this volume
which places the Dominican theologian Johannes Nider at the centre of an
emerging set of beliefs about diabolical sorcery and witchcraft in the 15th
century. Nider alternately persecuted heretics and negotiated with them - a man who
was by far the most important church authority to write on witchcraft in the
early 15th century. Nider was a major source for the infamous "Malleus
Maleficarum", or "Hammer of Witches" (1486), the manual of choice for
witch-hunters in late medieval Europe. Nider's reputation rests squarely on his
witchcraft writings, but in his own day he was better known as a leader of the
reform movement within the Dominican order and as a writer of important tracts
on numerous other aspects of late medieval religiosity, including heresy and
lay piety. The book places Nider in this wider context, showing that for late
medieval thinkers, witchcraft was one facet of a much larger crisis plaguing
Christian society. It was during the late Middle Ages that the full stereotype of demonic
witchcraft developed in Europe, and this is the subject of this volume which
places the Dominican theologian Johannes Nider at the centre of an emerging set
of beliefs about diabolical sorcery and witchcraft in the 15th century.
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