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Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages(Magic in History)

Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages(Magic in History)


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"The 15th century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches." So wrote Johan Huizinga in his book "Autumn of the Middle Ages". Although Huizinga was correct in his observation, modern readers have tended to focus on the more spectacular witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries. Nevertheless, it was during the late Middle Ages that the full stereotype of demonic witchcraft developed in Europe, and this is the subject of this volume which places the Dominican theologian Johannes Nider at the centre of an emerging set of beliefs about diabolical sorcery and witchcraft in the 15th century. Nider alternately persecuted heretics and negotiated with them - a man who was by far the most important church authority to write on witchcraft in the early 15th century. Nider was a major source for the infamous "Malleus Maleficarum", or "Hammer of Witches" (1486), the manual of choice for witch-hunters in late medieval Europe. Nider's reputation rests squarely on his witchcraft writings, but in his own day he was better known as a leader of the reform movement within the Dominican order and as a writer of important tracts on numerous other aspects of late medieval religiosity, including heresy and lay piety. The book places Nider in this wider context, showing that for late medieval thinkers, witchcraft was one facet of a much larger crisis plaguing Christian society.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Fifteenth Century

1. The Life of Johannes Nider

2. Witchcraft in the Writings of Johannes Nider

3. The Threat of Heresy: Hussites, Free Spirits, and Beguines

4. Reform of the Orders, Reform of the Religious Spirit

5. The Reform of the Christian World: Johannes Nider's Formicarius

6. Witchcraft and Reform

Conclusion: Witchcraft and the World of the Late Middle Ages

Appendix One: Chronology of Nider's Life and Datable Works

Appendix Two: Dating of Nider's Major Works Used in this Study

Appendix Three: Manuscript Copies of Nider’s Treatises

Select Bibliography



About the Author :
Michael D. Bailey is Visiting Scholar at the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame.

Review :
"In Battling Demons, Michael Bailey places the Dominican theologian Johannes Nider at the center of an emerging set of beliefs about diabolical sorcery and witchcraft in the fifteenth century. His argument is entirely original and will force those of us who study witchcraft to consider its implications not only for the late Middle Ages but also for the great persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." - Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780271022253
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Series Title: Magic in History
  • Sub Title: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0271022256
  • Publisher Date: 17 Oct 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 513 gr


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