The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft cover

The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft

by Hans Peter Broedel

Although The 'Malleus' is recognized as an important medieval text, as a source it presents difficulties of contextual understanding and cannot be said to be representative of late medieval learned thinking. This study is an introduction to this work and to the conceptual world of its authors.

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