The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief (Studies in Early Modern European History)

by HansPeterBroedel (Author), HansPeterBroedel (Author)

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  2004

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  Although The Malleus is recognized as an important medieval text, as a source it presents difficulties of contextual understanding and cannot be said to be representative of late medieval learned thinking. This study is an introduction to this work and to the conceptual world of its authors.