Est Insolitum Inquirere Taliter: Latin and German Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

by Christopher S. Mackay

This is the companion volume to the author's "An Unusual Inquisition" Translated Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck (Brill, 2020), and contains a full edition of the Latin and German documents illustrating Heinricus Institoris's activities as prosecutor of witchcraft in Ravensburg in 1484 and Innsbruck in 1485. These events had a great influence on Institoris's composition of the Malleus Maleficarum,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900445148X
• ISBN13: 9789004451483
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"