Witchcraft, superstition, and observant Franciscan preachers
Subtitle: pastoral approach and intellectual debate in Renaissance Milan
By: by Fabrizio Conti
Series: Europa sacra -- Volume 18; Europa sacra -- v. 18.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9782503549194; 9782503558127
Subjects: History; Witchcraft; Magic; Renaissance; Church history; Aberglaube; Hexenglaube; Franciscans
Description: "My aim is to analyse how the demarcation between the licit and the illicit took place from the privileged perspective of a number of Observant Franciscan friars...who were active in the friary of St Angelo in Milan between the last two decades of the fifteenth century and the first decade of the sixteenth."--Preface, p. xiv.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-363) and index.

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