Witchcraft and the papacy
Subtitle: an account drawing on the formerly secret records of the Roman Inquisition
By: Rainer Decker ; translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort.
Series: Studies in early modern German history
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813927473
Subjects: Catholic Church -- History; Inquisition -- History; Witches -- History; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Work titles: Päpste und die Hexen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pagan magic; title: The beginnings of the Medieval Inquisition; title: Popes and inquisitors in the fourteenth century; title: The origin of the witches' sabbath; title: The Malleus maleficarum; title: The struggle of the inquisition with Venice; title: Learned discussions at the beginning of the sixteenth century; title: The Modern Inquisition; title: A growing caution; title: The papal instruction concerning witchcraft trials; title: The fight with the magicians of Rome; title: Witchcraft persecution in the Grisons, 1654-1655; title: Demonic possession in Paderborn; title: Love magic, treasure hunting, and abuse of the Sacrament; title: "Tell your countrymen that they are total fools and madmen"; title: The last witch trials in Switzerland, 1780-1782; title: Nineteenth-century aftermath.