Martin Delrio
Subtitle: Scholarship and Demonology in the Counter-Reformation
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780197265802
Subjects: Demonology; Church history; Catholic church
Description: Recovers the wider scholarship of Jesuit Martin Delrio (1551-1608), beyond his Disquisitiones magicae, revealing his influence on early modern cultural, religious, and intellectual history, despite his later reputation for credulity and cruelty as attitudes towards witchcraft changed.