The 'Malleus Maleficarum' and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief

by Hans Peter Broedel

Book Overview

The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking. This, the first book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual word...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719064414
• ISBN13: 9780719064418
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"