Download or read book De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus written by Ulrich Molitoris and published by . This book was released on 1498 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus written by Ulrich Molitoris and published by . This book was released on 1489 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus written by Ulricus Molitoris and published by . This book was released on 1489 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ulrich Molitor s De Lamiis Et Pythonicis Mulieribus written by Amy Ghilieri and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inquisitorial and secular witchcraft handbooks during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were largely dynamic texts, depending on the intended audience and publication date. The most significant of these was certainly the Malleus Maleficarum , published in 1487 by Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Institoris. This vade mecum of procedure and ideology was the basis for many other texts of this nature, including the De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulierihus ( Concerning Witches and Demons ), written by Ulrich Molitor in 1489, only three years after the initial publication of the Malleus Maleficarum (Witches' Hammer) . In sharp contrast to the frequently studied Malleus , Ulrich Molitor's work has received little attention from scholars, allowing room for speculation as to why the book gained such popularity. There are many reasons why such a work would be published, but the similarity in scope, argument, and publication date between these texts make these reasons unclear. Ultimately, it will be argued that while the De Lamiis was published at the request of Sigismund the Archduke of Austria in order to further explain the "witchcraft problem" during his reign, the book's popularity resulted from the marketing techniques used in its publication. Publishers of the work employed literary methods that became popular during the fifteenth century, namely, the use of didactic dialogue in the vernacular. What is more, the type of illustrations used throughout the text appealed to unsophisticated readers, some of whom were only marginally literate. This emphasis on vernacular literature was furthered by the changes that took place in publishing and the marketing of texts during the fifteenth century, including the smaller format and use of less dense text blocks of the De Lamiiss . The timing for the publication of Molitor's work immediately after the publication of the Malleus was ideal given the contextual environment of fifteenth century Germany. It followed the perfect "trend" of the time, the witchcraft movement, and was marketed perfectly within that trend, which allowed it to remain popular for centuries.
Download or read book Witchcraft Demonology and Magic written by Marina Montesano and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.
Download or read book De Lanijs sic I e Lamiis Et Phitoicis sic I e Pythonicis Mulieribus Tractatus Pulcherrimus Etc With Woodcuts G L written by Ulrich MOLITOR (de Constantia.) and published by . This book was released on 1490* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Witchcraft written by Johann Weyer (s.j.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Female Witches and Woodcuts written by Elizabeth C. Srsic and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present Master’s thesis seeks to develop a better understanding of two influential series of witchcraft prints and drawings: the woodcuts of Ulrich Molitor’s De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus and three of Hans Baldung’s works. I will begin with a discussion of the role that gender played during the witch trials and how it influenced two of the woodcuts in De lamiis. Following the discussion of gender, I will examine the remaining De lamiis woodcuts in the context of the text and other visual sources. Finally, I will end with three of Hans Baldung’s witchcraft images, describing how they reflected and expanded established motifs.
Download or read book Witch Craze written by Lyndal Roper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.
Download or read book The Hammer of Witches written by Christopher S. Mackay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to contribute to our knowledge of early modern law, religion and society. Mackay's highly acclaimed translation, based on his extensive research and detailed analysis of the Latin text, is the only complete English version available, and the most reliable. Now available in a single volume, this key text is at last accessible to students and scholars of medieval history and literature. With detailed explanatory notes and a guide to further reading, this volume offers a unique insight into the fifteenth-century mind and its sense of sin, punishment and retribution.
Download or read book De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus written by ULRICUS MOLITOR and published by . This book was released on 1489 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus written by Ulrich Molitoris and published by . This book was released on 1489 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus dialogus written by Ulrich Molitor and published by . This book was released on 1500 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exorcising our Demons Magic Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Charles Zika and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.
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Download or read book The Science of Demons written by Jan Machielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different times and places answered these questions differently and disagreed bitterly. The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. By examining individual authors from across the continent, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and during the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how careers and identities were constructed out of battles against them – or against those who granted them too much power. Together, contributors chart the history of the devil from his emergence during the 1300s as a threatening figure – who made pacts with human allies and appeared bodily – through to the comprehensive but controversial demonologies of the turn of the seventeenth century, when European witch-hunting entered its deadliest phase. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe.
Download or read book The Witch in the Western Imagination written by Lyndal Roper and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and instead considers the witch as a symbolic and malleable figure through a broad sweep of topics and time periods. Employing a wide selection of archival, literary, and visual materials, Roper presents a series of thematic studies that range from the role of emotions in Renaissance culture to demonology as entertainment, and from witchcraft as female embodiment to the clash of cultures on the brink of the Enlightenment. Rather than providing a vast synthesis or survey, this book is questioning and exploratory in nature and illuminates our understanding of the mental and psychic worlds of people in premodern Europe. Roper’s spectrum of theoretical interests will engage readers interested in cultural history, psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, art history, and early modern European studies. These essays, three of which appear here for the first time in print, are complemented by more than forty images, from iconic paintings to marginal drawings on murals or picture frames. In her unique focus on the imagery of witchcraft, Lyndal Roper has succeeded in adding a compelling new dimension to the study of witchcraft in early modern Europe.
