The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft
Subtitle: theology and popular belief
By: Hans Peter Broedel.
Series: Studies in early modern European history
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed by Palgrave
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Institoris, Heinrich, -- 1430-1505; Sprenger, Jakob, -- 1436 or 8-1495; Witchcraft -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contested categories; title: Origins and arguments; title: The inquisitors' devil; title: Misfortune, witchcraft, and the will of God; title: Witchcraft: the formation of belief - part one; title: Witchcraft: the formation of belief - part two; title: Witchcraft as an expression of female sexuality.