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Johann Wier: Debating the Devil and Witches in Early Modern Europe(Renaissance History, Art and Culture)

Johann Wier: Debating the Devil and Witches in Early Modern Europe(Renaissance History, Art and Culture)


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This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed. It was the physician and scholar Johann Wier (1515-1588) who challenged the dominant idea. For his defense of witches, more than three centuries later, Sigmund Freud chose to put Wier's work among the ten books to be read. According to Wier, Satan seduced witches, thus they did not deserve to be executed, but they must be cured for their melancholy. When the witch hunt was rising, Wier was the first to use some of the arguments adopted in the emerging debate on religious tolerance in defence of witches. This is the first overall study of Wier which offers an innovative view of his thought, by highlighting Wier's sources and his attempts to involve theologians, physicians, and philosophers in his fight against cruel witch hunts. Johann Wier: Debating the Devil and Witches situates and explains his claim as a result of a moral and religious path as well as the outcome of his medical experience. The book aims to provide an insightful examination of Wier's works to read his pleas emphasizing the duty of every good Christian to not abandon anyone who strays from the flock of Christ. For these reasons, Wier was overwhelmed by bitter confutations, such as those of Jean Bodin, but he was also celebrated for his outstanding and prolific heritage for debating religious tolerance.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, 1. History and historiography: Wier and the witch-hunts, 2. Wier's early years and apprenticeship (1515-1557), 1. Agrippa and the French apprenticeship, 2. Working in Gelderland and Cleves, 3. Wier's faith, 3. Inside the labyrinth of spells: The origin and development of the De Praestigiis Daemonum (1557-1568), 1. The De praestigiis , 2. The theologian and the physician: on the punishment for witches, 3. Translations of the De praestigiis, 4. Between magic and science, 1. The circle of Oporinus and Basel, 2. Against Paracelsus, 5. Vince te ipsum: Towards the twilight: from 1569 to 1588, 1. The twilight, 2. Against Scalichius, 3. The physician Wier, 6. Demons, sorcerers, and witches, 1. Satan and his army, 2. Magicians, 3. Witches, 4. The distinction between magicians and witches, 7. Scepticism and toleration, 1. Erasmus between scepticism and toleration, 2. Erasmus and Wier, 8. Reading and refuting Wier, 1. Appreciations and critics, 2. The Debate with Erastus, 3. Bodin against Wier, 4. Wier's legacy in English and Germanic debates, 5. Wier in the XVIIth century, 6. After Descartes: the disenchantment of the world, Conclusion, Bibliography (primary sources), Bibliography (secondary sources), Index

About the Author :
Michaela Valente (Ph.D. 2000) is Professore Associato of Early Modern History at Università del Molise and since 2021 at “La Sapienza”, Università di Roma. She has published essays and books on Jean Bodin, on the demonological debate, and on the Roman Inquisition.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781041181712
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Sub Title: Debating the Devil and Witches in Early Modern Europe
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 104118171X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Renaissance History, Art and Culture
  • Weight: 426 gr


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