Witchcraft and the Papacy: An Account Drawn from the Formerly Secret Archives of the Roman Inquisition (Studies in Early Modern German History)

by H.C.ErikMidelfort (Translator), RainerDecker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

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  Based on newly available materials, this traces the role of the papacy in witchcraft prosecutions from medieval times to the eighteenth century. Decker contends that the post-medieval papacy played a restraining role at the height of the witch-hunting fre