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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 ...
[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 ...
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.
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.
" (Generally translated into English as The Hammer of Witches which destroyeth Witches and their heresy as with a two-edged sword). [34] 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, 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.
English translation: CAMBION, — Children of Demons. ... The Malleus Maleficarum refers to the children of incubi as "campsores" or "Wechselkind" (a German term for ...
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.