Witch Beliefs and Witch Trials in the Middle Ages: Documents and ReadingsA&C Black, 30.06.2011 - 240 Seiten In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn. Most of the original documents are in Latin, with some in medieval German and French, and it has been left largely untranslated, making the material inaccessible, and neglected. This new translation of the key documents will enable students and scholars to look afresh at this crucial period in the development of attitudes towards witchcraft. Through the translated extracts we can see the beliefs and activities which had been formally condemned by ecclesiastical and secular authorities, but which had not yet become subject to widespread eradicating pogroms, start to be allied with heresy and with changing conceptions of demonic activity. The extensive introductory essay gives the reader the historical, theological, intellectual and social background and contexts of the translated documents. The translations themselves will all have introductory notes. This volume will contribute significantly to our understanding of the witchcraft phenomenon in the Middle Ages. |
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Part I | 17 |
1 Should inquisitors investigate and punish fortune tellers? 1258 | 19 |
4 Instructions to root out demon worship and sacrilegious magic in Carcassonne 1320 | 22 |
5 Parish clergy and monks threaten the life of Philippe de Valois with harmful magic 1331 | 23 |
6 An English necromancer and his magical apparatus 1336 | 24 |
4 A notary practises magic and summons demons 1410 | 143 |
5 The Devil appears in the form of a goat 1432 | 144 |
6 A priest charged with invoking demons and divining the future with their help in Carcassonne 1435 | 145 |
8 Invoking Beelzebub and taking him as a teacher of harmful magic 1438 | 146 |
9 Guillaume Adeline a Benedictine confesses to taking part in the
Sabbat 1453 | 149 |
10 Four men and four women from Chamonix are sentenced to death for demon worship and apostasy 1462 | 153 |
11 Women condemned for holding a Sabbat and for heresy and fortune telling 1470 | 154 |
12 An acquittal disapproved 1476 | 155 |
7 Payment to a notary for recording the trial of fortune tellers and other criminals 1336 | 25 |
10 Benedict XII investigates a plot to kill John XXII by magic 1337 | 26 |
11 Two women who have entered a devils service 1338 | 27 |
12 Image magic and buried treasure 1339 | 28 |
13 Demon worshippers seek to obstruct the inquisitorial process 1374 | 30 |
14 Eugenius IV addresses all inquisitors on the subject of demon worship and magical practice 1437 | 31 |
15 Pope Eugenius rails against Amadeus Duke of Savoy as a protector of and a consorter with witches 1440 | 32 |
16 Boniface IX writes to a priest who has been involved in magic and an unforeseen death 1440 | 33 |
17 Confirmation of an inquisitors powers against a variety of offences 1451 | 34 |
19 Heretics who practise fortune telling and magic and spread errors among the faithful 1459 | 35 |
20 Grant of an indulgence to the Dominican house in Sélestat to help with its upkeep and contribute to the expenses of local inquisitors 1483 | 36 |
21 Heinrich Institoris and Jakob Sprenger have their powers as inquisitors clarified in the face of objections from certain clergy and lay men 1484 | 37 |
22 Incantations acts of poisonous magic and superstitious practices are to be suppressed and punished 1501 | 41 |
23 Lay interference in cases of magic divination and demon worship 1521 | 42 |
Part II | 45 |
Canon Episcopi c900 | 47 |
1 The form and method of questioning readers of signs and idolaters anonymous c1270 | 48 |
2 Magically induced impotence and a mixture of remedies Arnald of Villanova attributed c1300 | 50 |
3 Interrogating sorcerers fortune tellers and invokers of demons and repudiating past practice of magic Bernard Gui c1320 | 55 |
4 Worshipping demons can be a good thing Ramón de Tárrega c1370 | 57 |
5 Actions which are superstitious and actions which are not Heinrich von Gorkum c1425 | 58 |
6 Infecundity eating children and repentance Johannes Nider 14351437 | 60 |
7 Can people sometimes be carried by the Devil through various places? Alonso Tostado c1440 | 63 |
8 Peasant beliefs and practices according to a hostile source Felix Hemmerlin 14441450 | 67 |
9 The Sabbat anonymous c1450 | 70 |
10 The extent and limitation of demons powers Jean Vineti c1450 | 74 |
11 The Waldensians their Sabbat their evil deeds and how to prosecute them anonymous 1460 | 79 |
13 What workers of magic do Jean Vincent c1475 | 122 |
14 Impotence magic at the Spanish Court anonymous c1505 | 128 |
Afterword | 129 |
Part III | 139 |
1 Women from the south of France offer magical cures 1245 | 141 |
3 Clerical magic in Toulouse 1323 | 142 |
14 Decisions in a trial of five accused witches 1485 | 167 |
15 Wolfgang Heimstöckl is commissioned to suppress all forms of magic and divination and undertakes the task 14911499 | 168 |
16 Sabbats in the Val Camonica 1518 | 171 |
Part IV | 173 |
1 A dead body vanishes from the field of battle 1304 | 175 |
3 Conjuring the Devil in an act of hostile sex magic 1390 | 176 |
4 Magic with toads and a wax image 13901391 | 178 |
5 A thief evokes a devil to act as a source of information 1401 | 180 |
6 The execution of the Chancellor of Savoy on a charge of attempted assassination by magical means 1417 | 181 |
7 The activities and subsequent prosecution of sorcerers fortune tellers and similar workers of magic in the bilingual territory of Valais Wallis 14281... | 182 |
8 The crimes and sentence of Jubert of Bavaria tried for witchcraft 1437 | 189 |
9 An accused woman found not guilty 1431 | 195 |
10 The costs of guarding prisoners and execution in Fribourg Switzerland 14261442 | 196 |
11 Paying a fine or being burned in Perugia 1445 | 197 |
theft and abuse of the Blessed Sacrament for the purposes of harmful magic 1447 | 198 |
14 Punishments for witches and their cronies 1448 | 200 |
16 Children Waldensians and the witches Sabbat 1452 | 202 |
17 Mob rule as an epidemic is blamed on female witches 1453 | 205 |
18 A boys evidence convicts several witches of destroying vines 1456 | 206 |
19 A female magical practitioner specializing in weather magic and freezing water 1456 | 207 |
20 More male and female witches executed in Metz 1457 | 209 |
22 Payments to Meister Hans executioner of Freiburg 14541477 | 210 |
24 The effect of hydromancy in Jülich 1486 | 211 |
25 Record of executions and deaths Metz 1488 | 212 |
26 A woman imprisoned as a witch set free 1492 | 213 |
28 A woman executed in Konstanz 1495 | 214 |
29 Two witches beheaded at Hildesheim 1496 | 215 |
31 Three workers of harmful magic burned at Worms 1509 | 216 |
33 Magical damage to crops 15181519 | 220 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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