Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation

by Jan Machielsen

If the Jesuit Martin Delrio (1551-1608) is remembered at all today, it is for his Disquisitiones magicae (1599-1600), a voluminous tome on witchcraft and superstition which was reprinted numerous times until 1755.

The present volume recovers the lost world of Delrio's wider scholarship. Delrio emerges here as a figure of considerable interest not only to historians of witchcraft but to the broader fields of early modern cultural, religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197265804
• ISBN13: 9780197265802
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: British Academy
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"