The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil

ISBN-13: 9781138571839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str.

Jan Machielsen

Opis

Examining individual authors, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how identities were constructed out of the battle against them.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Science of Demons  Part 1: Beginnings  1. The Inquisitor’s Demons: Nicolau Eymeric’s Directorium Inquisitorum  2. Promoter of the Sabbat and Diabolical Realism: Nicolas Jacquier’s Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum  Part 2: The First Wave of Printed Witchcraft Texts  3. The Bestselling Demonologist: Heinrich Institoris’s Malleus maleficarum  4. Lawyers versus Inquisitors: Ponzinibio’s De lamiis and Spina’s De strigibus  5. The Witch-Hunting Humanist: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s Strix  Part 3: The Sixteenth-Century Debate  6. ‘Against the Devil, the Subtle and Cunning Enemy’: Johann Wier’s De praestigiis daemonum  7. The Will to Know and the Unknowable: Jean Bodin’s De La Démonomanie  8. Doubt and Demonology: Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft  9. Demonology and Anti-Demonology: Binsfeld’s De confessionibus and Loos’s De vera et falsa magia  10. A Royal Witch Theorist: James VI’s Daemonologie  11. Demonology as Textual Scholarship: Martin Delrio’s Disquisitiones magicae  Part 4: Demonology and Theology  12. ‘Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght’: Ludwig Lavater’s Von Gespänsten  13. A Spanish Demonologist During the French Wars of Religion: Juan de Maldonado’s Traicté des anges et demons  14. Scourging Demons with Exorcism: Girolamo Menghi’s Flagellum daemonum  15. The Ambivalent Demonologist: William Perkins’s Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft  16. Piety and Purification: The Anonymous Czarownica powołana  Part 5: Demonology and Law  17. An Untrustworthy Reporter: Nicolas Remy’s Daemonolatreiae libri tres  18. The Mythmaker of the Sabbat: Pierre de Lancre’s Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais anges et démons.  19. An Expert Lawyer and Reluctant Demonologist: Alonso de Salazar Frías, Spanish Inquisitor.  Critical Editions and English Translations of Demonological Texts

O autorze

Jan Machielsen is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.