The Hammer of Witches

The Hammer of Witches
Author: Christopher S. Mackay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 957
Release: 2009-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110739371X

The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and detailed analysis of the Latin text, is the only complete English version available, and the most reliable. Now available in a single volume, this key text is at last accessible to students and scholars of medieval history and literature. With detailed explanatory notes and a guide to further reading, this volume offers a unique insight into the fifteenth-century mind and its sense of sin, punishment and retribution.

The ‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the construction of witchcraft

The ‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the construction of witchcraft
Author: Hans Broedel
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847795676

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking. This, the first book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual word of its authors. Like all witch-theorists, Institoris and Sprenger constructed their witch out of a constellation of pre-existing popular beliefs and learned traditions. Therefore, to understand the Malleus, one must also understand the contemporary and subsequent debates over the reality and nature of witches. This book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic text, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore remained influential long after alternatives were forgotten. Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has important implications for fifteenth-century witchcraft theory. This is a fascinating work on the Malleus Maleficarum and will be essential to students and academics of late medieval and early modern history, religion and witchcraft studies.

Compendium Maleficarum

Compendium Maleficarum
Author: Francesco Maria Guazzo
Publisher: Book Tree
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781585092468

Were witches real in the Middle Ages? This handbook on witchcraft, first published in 1628, claims to expose the entire practice and profession of witchcraft. Was used as support in the accusation of witches at the time, although we can recognize much of it today as being paranoid superstition by religious authorities. The book is valuable because it allows one to view the extreme superstition surrounding witchcraft at the time, and to better understand the degree of persecution that resulted.

The Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum
Author: Heinrich Institoris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN:

This title offers a new translation of the medieval treatise on witchcraft, the Malleus Maleficarum, by the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Institoris.

The Astronomer & the Witch

The Astronomer & the Witch
Author: Ulinka Rublack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198736770

In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one that takes us to the heart of his changing world.

Compendium Maleficarum

Compendium Maleficarum
Author: Francesco Maria Guazzo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486121100

Extraordinary document (1608) on witchcraft and demonology offers striking insight into early 17th century mind. Serious discussions of witches’ powers, poisons, crimes, more. Rare limited edition.

Malleus Maleficarum

Malleus Maleficarum
Author: Mike Rosen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781593622138

In 1487, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger wrote the Malleus Maleficarum, the premiere manual for exposing, capturing, prosecuting, and burning witches used by every right-thinking European magistrate of the late middle ages. Cartoonist Mike Rosen has adapted this warm and uplifting tome which fueled a wave of witch-hunting that lasted for nearly two centuries and cost nearly 60,000 people (mostly women) their lives. The adaptation's tongue-in-cheek tone exposes a kind of paranoid thinking which exists to this day in some circles and answeres all of those nagging eternal questions; Do witches kill newborn babies for use in their rituals? Can they turn men into beasts? Can they steal mens' penises, collecting them in great numbers, to hide in, say, a bird's nest up in a tree, where they then move around like squiggly phallic snakes and eat corn and oats? Finally, most importantly, do witches have sexual relations with devils? How do they have sexual relations with devils? And could we hear some more about these sexual relations with devils? Nothing makes for a fun read like torture, murder, infanticide, and disembodied penises! Always fun and educational.

The Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum
Author: Heinrich Kramer
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1602063842

"A handbook for hunting and punishing witches to assist the Inquisition and Church in exterminating undesirables. Mostly a compilation of superstition and folklore, the book was taken very seriously at the time it was written in the 15th century and became a kind of spiritual law book used by judges to determine the guilt of the accused"--From publisher description.

The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
Author: Heinrich Institoris
Publisher: Book Tree
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781585090983

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700

Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700
Author: Alan Charles Kors
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812217513

A thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.