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Witchcraft and the Papacy: An Account Drawing on the Formerly Secret Records of the Roman Inquisition (Studies in Early Modern German History)
Rainer Decker
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Paperback. Based on newly available materials, this traces the role of the papacy in witchcraft prosecutions from medieval times to the eighteenth century. Decker contends that the post-medieval papacy played a restraining role at the height of the witch-hunting fre Translator(s): Midelfort, H. C. Erik. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 14 figures, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; VXWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
When Rainer Decker was researching a sensational seventeenth-century German witchcraft trial, he discovered, much to his surprise, that in this case the papacy functioned as a force of skepticism and restraint. His curiosity piqued, he tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a secret Vatican archive housing the records of the Roman Inquisition that had been sealed to outsiders from its sixteenth-century beginnings. In 1996 Decker was one of the first of a small group of scholars allowed access. Originally published as Die Papste und die Hexen, Witchcraft and the Papacy is based on these newly available materials and traces the ... Read more
When Rainer Decker was researching a sensational seventeenth-century German witchcraft trial, he discovered, much to his surprise, that in this case the papacy functioned as a force of skepticism and restraint. His curiosity piqued, he tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a secret Vatican archive housing the records of the Roman Inquisition that had been sealed to outsiders from its sixteenth-century beginnings. In 1996 Decker was one of the first of a small group of scholars allowed access. Originally published as Die Papste und die Hexen, Witchcraft and the Papacy is based on these newly available materials and traces the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Early Modern German History
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927480
SKU
V9780813927480
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About Rainer Decker
Rainer Decker is the Director of the Department of History at the Secondary Teachers' Training Institute in Paderborn, Germany. H. C. Erik Midelfort is professor of religious studies and history at the University of Virginia, author of Exorcism and Enlightenment, and the translator of Wolfgang Behringer's The Shaman of Oberstdorf (Virginia).
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