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  2. Malleus Maleficarum - Wikipedia

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    The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.

  3. Witch trials in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    The most important and influential book which promoted the new heterodox view was the Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1487 by clergyman and German inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, accompanied by Jacobus Sprenger. Malleus Maleficarum is split up into three different sections, each individual section addressing an aspect of witches and their culture ...

  4. File:Sprenger - Malleus maleficarum, 1669 - BEIC 9477645.tiff

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    English: Wishbone. Latina: Malleus maleficarum. Date: 1669: Source: Available in the BEIC digital library and uploaded in partnership with BEIC Foundation ...

  5. Häxan - Wikipedia

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    Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch-hunts may have stemmed from misunderstandings of mental or neurological disorders, triggering mass hysteria. [3] The movie was produced by Swedish AB Svensk Filmindustri but shot in Denmark in 1920 ...

  6. File:Malleus maleficarum, Köln 1520, Titelseite.jpg - Wikipedia

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  7. Heinrich Kramer - Wikipedia

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    Malleus Maleficarum in a 1669 edition.. Heinrich Kramer (c. 1430 – 1505, aged 74-75), also known under the Latinized name Henricus Institor, [a] [1] was a German churchman and inquisitor.

  8. Feminist interpretations of witch trials in the early modern ...

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    Most of the answers came from religious beliefs.Today, the Malleus Maleficarum is widely referred to as evidence of the misogynistic nature of witch trials. [1] The text shows the power the male audience had over women, and the hopelessness women faced when it came to witch accusations.

  9. Ulrich Molitor - Wikipedia

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    Ulrich Molitor (also Molitoris) (c. 1442 – before 23 December 1507) was a lawyer who wrote a treatise offering qualified support, joined to clarifications and methodological critiques derived Canon Law, to the recent witch-phobic efforts by Heinrich Kramer represented in Krämer's then-recently-published manual for the interrogation and prosecution of witchcraft Malleus Maleficarum.