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charisstomaWitch Hunting for Dummies: The 15th-Century Witchcraft Manual
Cornell's witchcraft collection has an original copy of the Malleus Maleficarum, an early witch-hunting handbook.
By Sarah Laskow APRIL 12, 2016 http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/witch-hunting-for-dummies-the-15th-century-witchcraft-manual?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&utm_campaign=d60299601a-Newsletter_4_14_20164_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-d60299601a-60248153&ct=t(Newsletter_4_14_20164_12_2016)&mc_cid=d60299601a&mc_eid=dbc2f66964
One person opinioned that the english version is somewhat "overinterpreted" and provided this source:
the original 1928 introduction and the subsequent 1948 introduction (both written by the Rev. Montague Summers), along with the various ancillary material within the edition in my possession. But upon transcribing these introductions, I discovered that neither of them were very balanced or impartial. This could be expected, as the good Rev. Summers was, I believe, a Catholic priest and theologian. He was also apparently a member of the Dominican Order, the same order from which Henry Kramer and James Sprenger, the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, were drawn.
http://(transcription of the original 1928 and 1948 english versions of Malleus Maleficarum: http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/pdf/5533.pdf
Cornell's witchcraft collection has an original copy of the Malleus Maleficarum, an early witch-hunting handbook.
By Sarah Laskow APRIL 12, 2016 http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/witch-hunting-for-dummies-the-15th-century-witchcraft-manual?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&utm_campaign=d60299601a-Newsletter_4_14_20164_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-d60299601a-60248153&ct=t(Newsletter_4_14_20164_12_2016)&mc_cid=d60299601a&mc_eid=dbc2f66964
One person opinioned that the english version is somewhat "overinterpreted" and provided this source:
the original 1928 introduction and the subsequent 1948 introduction (both written by the Rev. Montague Summers), along with the various ancillary material within the edition in my possession. But upon transcribing these introductions, I discovered that neither of them were very balanced or impartial. This could be expected, as the good Rev. Summers was, I believe, a Catholic priest and theologian. He was also apparently a member of the Dominican Order, the same order from which Henry Kramer and James Sprenger, the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, were drawn.
http://(transcription of the original 1928 and 1948 english versions of Malleus Maleficarum: http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/pdf/5533.pdf
