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Shows the Malleus, a very well known and widely quoted medieval text, to be highly idiosyncratic, and unusual in its ideas, even among the texts of other contemporary witch-theorists -- .

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Broedel has provided an excellent study, not only of the Malleus and its authors, but just as importantly, of the intellectual context in which the Malleus must be set and the theological and folk traditions to which it is, in many ways, an heir.

Peter Maxwell-Stuart, St Andrews University

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Authors and arguments
3. The inquisitors’ Devil
4. Misfortune, witchcraft and the will of god
5. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part one -- evidence and interpretation
6. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part two
7. Witchcraft as an expression of female sexuality
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 11/13/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719064418, 978-0719064418
      ISBN10: 0719064414

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows the Malleus, a very well known and widely quoted medieval text, to be highly idiosyncratic, and unusual in its ideas, even among the texts of other contemporary witch-theorists -- .

      Trade Review

      Broedel has provided an excellent study, not only of the Malleus and its authors, but just as importantly, of the intellectual context in which the Malleus must be set and the theological and folk traditions to which it is, in many ways, an heir.

      Peter Maxwell-Stuart, St Andrews University

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. Authors and arguments
      3. The inquisitors’ Devil
      4. Misfortune, witchcraft and the will of god
      5. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part one -- evidence and interpretation
      6. Witchcraft: The formation of belief, part two
      7. Witchcraft as an expression of female sexuality
      Bibliography

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