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1、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 W HAT WAS
2、WITCHCRAFT? Were witches real? How should witches be identifi ed? How should they be judged? Towards the end of the middle ages these were serious and important questions and completely new ones. Between 1430 and 1500, a number of learned witch-theorists attempted to answer such questions, and of th
3、ese perhaps the most famous are the Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Institoris and Jacob Sprenger, the authors of the Malleus Malefi carum, or The Hammer of Witches. The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines.Yet it also presents
4、serious diffi culties: it is diffi cult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking.This, the fi rst book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the co
5、nceptual world 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 real
6、ity and nature of witches.This book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic text, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore remained infl uential long after alternatives were forgotten. Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has important implica
7、tions for fi fteenth-century witchcraft theory. This is a fascinating work on the Malleus Malefi carum and will be essential to students and academics of late medieval and early modern history, religion and witchcraft studies. HANS PETER BROEDEL is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton
8、 College, New York The Malleus Malefi carum and the construction of witchcraft B RO E D E L COVER ILLUSTRATION Witches concocting an ointment to be used for fl ying to the Sabbath, Hans Baldung Grien, Strassburg, 1514 The Malleus Malefi carum and the construction of witchcraft Theology and popular b
9、elief H A N S P E T E R B R O E D E L broedel.cov 12/8/03 9:23 am Page 1 The Malleus Malefi carum and the construction of witchcraft TMMPR 8/30/03 5:36 PM Page i STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY This exciting series aims to publish challenging and innovative research in all areas of early mo
10、dern continental history. The editors are committed to encouraging work that engages with current historiographical debates, adopts an interdisciplinary approach, or makes an original contribution to our understanding of the period. Professor Joseph Bergin,William G. Naphy and Penny Roberts Already
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12、 reformation of Arnoldus Buchelus (15651641) Judith Pollman A city in confl ict:Troyes during the French wars of religion Penny Roberts Witchcraft narratives in Germany:Rothenburg 15611652 Alison Rowlands TMMPR 8/30/03 5:36 PM Page ii The Malleus Malefi carum and the construction of witchcraft Theol
13、ogy and popular belief HANS PETER BROEDEL Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave TMMPR 8/30/03 5:36 PM Page iii Copyright Hans Peter Broedel 2003 The right of Hans Peter Broedel to be identifi ed as the author of this work has been asserted
14、 by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 175 Fifth A
15、venue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cata
16、loging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 0 7190 6440 6 hardback 0 7190 6441 4 paperback First published 2003 11100908070605040310987654321 Typeset in Perpetua with Albertus by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed in Great Britain by Bell in addition to noting appar- ent errors in the Latin, where necessary I have given the alternative Latin from the 1519 edition within brackets.The English translations are my own and are my respon- sibility,but I have benef
