Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark
Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
This book offers the first ever attempt to compare lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, jurisdiction in Italy relating to witchcraft rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the condemnation and narratives of witchcraft as they were presented by people involved in the trials in a Roman-Catholic and Danish-Lutheran context, and ties together the diverse research traditions of Italian and Danish witchcraft scholarship. Agents of Witchcraft is divided into three sections, beginning with an analysis of the learned and legal understandings of witchcraft, and proceeding with an examination of how the people on trial understood the term 'witchcraft'. Finally, the book ends by looking at the encounter of beliefs between the defendant and the judge.
年:
2015
出版商:
Palgrave Macmillan
語言:
english
頁數:
224
ISBN 10:
0230300715
ISBN 13:
9780230300712
系列:
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
文件:
PDF, 1.22 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2015
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