Est insolitum inquirere taliter
Subtitle: Latin and German documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck
By: [edited] by Christopher S. Mackay
Series: Studies in central European histories -- volume 68; Studies in Central European histories -- v. 68
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; ger; lat
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9789004451483; 9789004454767
Subjects: Witchcraft; Early works to 1800; Demonology; Criminal procedure (Canon law); Trials (Witchcraft); Malleus maleficarum (Institoris, Heinrich)
Description: "This is the companion volume to the author's "An Unusual Inquisition": Translated Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck (Brill, 2020), and contains a full edition of the Latin and German documents illustrating Heinricus Institoris's activities as prosecutor of witchcraft in Ravensburg in 1484 and Innsbruck in 1485. These events had a great influence on Institoris's composition of the Malleus Maleficarum, the most famous and influential early-modern textbook on witchcraft. This is the only full and complete edition of these documents, some of which have not previously been published in their entirety, and the texts greatly illuminate the historical setting of the composition of one of history's most notorious books"--
Notes: "The translations [into English] of these texts appears in a companion volume in this Brill series, and the present edition of the original texts follows the order of the texts as they appear in the translation"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Letter from the burgermasters and City Council of Ravensburg to Archduke Sigismund of Austria, December 17, 1484; title: Guarantee of good behavior (Urfehde), Ravensburg, October 23, 1484; title: Instruction from Bishop Georg of Brixen to his ecclesiastical subordinates, July 23, 1485; title: Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, September 21, 1485; title: Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to Archduke Sigismund, September 21, 1485; title: Letter from Archduke Sigismund of Austria to Bishop Georg of Brixen, October 8, 1485; title: Letter of Biship Georg of Brixen to Sigismund Sämer, parish priest in Axams, undated (mid-October, 1485); title: Vernacular protocol; title: Latin protocols against the seven accused women; title: Latin articles of suspected crimes and list of questions for further investigation of the seven suspects after their release; title: Record of the proceedings against the seven accused women, October 29-31 and November 3, 1485; title: Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, November 14, 1485; title: Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to an unnamed parish priest in Innsbruck, November 14, 1485; title: Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Brother Nicolas, February 9, 1486; title: Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, February 9, 1486; title: The Brixen memorandum.