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Libra Esoterica

Est insolitum inquirere taliter

Latin and German documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

by Christopher S. Mackay

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Languages: German, Latin

Description

Description from SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog (opens in a new tab)

"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, the most famous and influential early-modern textbook on witchcraft. This is the only full and complete edition of these documents, some of which have not previously been published in their entirety, and the texts greatly illuminate the historical setting of the composition of one of history's most notorious books."

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from sudoc matched “sorcellerie”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description, “sorcellerie” in the subject metadata, and “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata.

    • “sorcellerie”· via SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog
    • “Witchcraft”· in description
    • “sorcellerie”· in subject
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Demonology”· in subject

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Latin and German documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

SUDOC union-catalog record

"The translations [into English] of these texts appears in a companion volume in this Brill series, and the present edition of the original texts follows the order of the texts as they appear in the translation."--Introduction; 1 volume (VI-185 pages); 25 cm; Bibliogr. p. 8. Notes bibliogr. Index

C 2021BrillGerman, Latin
  • 9789004451483
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