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Malleus Maleficarum (1486), translated by Montague Summers (1928) – English-language translation hosted on the Internet Sacred Text Archive. Hans Peter Broedel The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief , (2003), with English-language translations, hosted at OAPEN doi : 10.7765/9781526137814 ISBN ...
However, the Malleus Maleficarum received an official condemnation by the Church three years later, and Kramer's claims of approval are seen by modern scholars as misleading. [11] The bull, which synthesized the spiritual and the secular crimes of witchcraft, [12] is often viewed as opening the door for the witchhunts of the early modern period.
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.
[20] After Christopher S. MacKay published a full translation of the Malleus Maleficarum in 2006, historian Jonathan Seitz welcomed that new work, noting that, until then, the Malleus had "been readily available in English only in the atrocious 1928 'translation' authored by Montague Summers". Seitz added that "to dub Summers an eccentric would ...
Malleus maleficarum, 1669. Jacob Sprenger (also James, [1] 1436/1438 – 6 December 1495) was a Dominican inquisitor and theologian principally known for his association with a well-known guide for witch-hunters from 1486, Malleus Maleficarum.
In a 2009 translation of Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum (1486), the word sabbath does not occur. There is a line describing a supposed gathering that uses the word concionem; it is accurately translated as an assembly.
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.
Compendium Maleficarum is a witch-hunter's manual written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo, and published in Milan (present-day Italy) in 1608. [1] It discusses witches' pacts with the devil, and detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons. It also contains Guazzo's classification of demons, based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.