Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700 : a documentary history /

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Other Authors / Creators:Kors, Alan Charles. Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700.
Peters, Edward, 1936-
Kors, Alan Charles.
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:Second edition.
Imprint: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Problem of European Witchcraft
  • I. Christianizing the Traditions
  • 1. Augustine: On Christian Teaching
  • 2. Caesarius of Arles: Sermon 54
  • 3. Isidore of Seville, Etymologies
  • 4. Halitgar of Cambrai: The "Roman" Penitential
  • II. Sorcery in Christendom
  • 5. Regino of Prum: A Warning to Bishops
  • 6. Burchard of Worms: The Corrector, sive Medicus
  • 7. Hugh of St. Victor: The Didascalicon
  • 8. William of Malmesbury: The Sorceress of Berkeley
  • 9. Master Gratian: The Decretum
  • 10. John of Salisbury: The Policraticus
  • 11. Ralph of Coggeshall: The Heretics of Rheims
  • 12. Jacobus de Voragine: The Life of St. Justina
  • III. Thomas Aquinas on Sorcery and the Nature of Evil
  • 13. From the Summa contra gentiles
  • 14. From the Summa theologiae
  • 15. From Quodlibet XI
  • 16. From the Commentary on the Four Books of Sentences
  • 17. Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence
  • IV. Popes, Theologians, Preachers, Lawyers, and Judges
  • 18. Pope Gregory IX: Vox in Rama
  • 19. Pope Alexander IV: Sorcery and the Inquisitors
  • 20. William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina: Sorcery and the Inquisitors
  • 21. Pope John XXII: Sorcery and the Inquisitors
  • 22. Nicolau Eymeric: The Directorium inquisitorum
  • 23. The Theology Faculty of the University of Paris Condemns Sorcery
  • 24. Bernardino of Siena Preaches Against Women Sorcerers
  • V. The Sect of Diabolical Witches
  • 25. Pope Alexander V to Pontus Fougeyron on New Sects
  • 26. Pope Eugenius IV: Two Letters on the Pressing Danger
  • 27. Johannes Nider: The Formicarius
  • 28. The Errores Gazariorum
  • 29. Claude Tholosan: Ut magorum et maleficiorum errores
  • 30. Martin Le Franc: The Defender of Ladies
  • 31. Nicholas Jacquier: A Scourge for Heretical Witches
  • 32. Jehan de la Case Is Pardoned for Killing a Witch-Finder
  • VI. The Hammer of Witches
  • 33. Pope Innocent VIII: Summis desiderantes affectibus
  • 34. Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger: The Malleus Maleficarum
  • 35. Pope Alexander VI: The Pursuit of Witches in Lombardy
  • VII. Humanists, Sorcerers, Preachers, and Popes
  • 36. Desiderius Erasmus: A Terrible Case of Sorcery in Orleans
  • 37. Johann Geiler von Kayserberg: Die Emeis
  • 38. Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola: Strix
  • 39. Pope Hadrian VI: On Diabolical Witchcraft
  • VIII. The Problem of Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Age of the Reformation
  • 40. Martin Luther: The Two Kinds of Sorcery and the Reformation
  • 41. John Calvin: Witchcraft and the Reformation
  • 42. Lambert Daneau: De veneficiis
  • 43. Martin de Castanega, Tratado muy sotil y bien fundado
  • 44. Johann Weyer: De praestigiis daemonum
  • 45. Jean Bodin: On the Demon-Mania of Witches
  • 46. The Confessions of the Chelmsford Witches
  • 47. The Prosecutions at Trier
  • 48. The Prosecutions in Scotland
  • 49. Nicholas Remy, Demonolatry
  • IX. Witchcraft Prosecutions in the Seventeenth Century
  • 50. Martin Del Rio: Disquisitiones magicarum
  • 51. Ben Jonson: The Masque of Queens
  • 52. The Trial of Marie Cornu
  • 53. The Prosecutions at Bamberg
  • 54. The Prosecutions at Wurzburg
  • 55. The Prosecutions at Bonn
  • 56. The Devils of Loudun
  • 57. The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry
  • 58. Cotton Mather: "A Discourse on Witches"
  • 59. Joseph Glanvill: Sadducismus Triumphatus
  • X. Belief, Skepticism, Doubt, and Disbelief in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 60. Reginald Scot: Discoverie of Witchcraft
  • 61. Michel de Montaigne: "Concerning Cripples"
  • 62. Benedict de Spinoza: The Political Works
  • 63. Alonso de Salazar Frias: A Spanish Inquisitor on Witchcraft and Evidence
  • 64. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
  • 65. Friedrich Spee: Cautio criminalis
  • 66. Balthasar Bekker: The Enchanted World
  • 67. The Recantation of the Salem Village Jurors
  • 68. Pierre Bayle: Answer to the Questions of a Provincial
  • 69. Christian Thomasius: Witchcraft and the Law
  • Acknowledgments