Cautio Criminalis Or A Book On Witch Trials

Author : Friedrich Spee
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813934174

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Cautio Criminalis, or a Book on Witch Trials by Friedrich Spee Pdf

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women accused of witchcraft in Germany, had witnessed firsthand the twisted logic and brutal torture used by judges and inquisitors. Combined, these harsh prosecutorial measures led inevitably not only to a confession but to denunciations of supposed accomplices, spreading the circle of torture and execution ever wider. Driven by his priestly charge of enacting Christian charity, or love, Spee sought to expose the flawed arguments and methods used by the witch-hunters. His logic is relentless as he reveals the contradictions inherent in their arguments, showing there is no way for an innocent person to prove her innocence. And, he questions, if the condemned witches truly are guilty, how could the testimony of these servants and allies of Satan be reliable? Spee’s insistence that suspects, no matter how heinous the crimes of which they are accused, possess certain inalienable rights is a timeless reminder for the present day. The Cautio Criminalis is one of the most important and moving works in the history of witch trials and a revealing documentation of one man’s unexpected humanity in a brutal age. Marcus Hellyer’s accessible translation from the Latin makes it available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Studies in Early Modern German History

Author : Friedrich von Spee
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0813921821

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Cautio Criminalis, Or, A Book on Witch Trials by Friedrich von Spee Pdf

Marcus Hellyer's accessible translation from the Latin makes it available to English-speaking audiences for the first time.Studies in Early Modern German History

Author : Frank Sobiech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Trials (Witchcraft)
ISBN : 8870413802

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Jesuit Prison Ministry in the Witch Trials of the Holy Roman Empire by Frank Sobiech Pdf

"This study is the first examination of Jesuit prison ministry in the Holy Roman Empire during the period of witch trials. It provides new insights into the prisons where the persons detained for witchcraft were incarcerated, as well as into their trials, including their torture and executions — as seen through Jesuit eyes. In this context, the Cautio Criminalis appeared, written by Friedrich Spee SJ (1591–1635), dealing with the question of the legality of these trials and the related prison ministry, and printed pseudonymously in 1631 and again in 1632. For the first time, the book offers a complete biography of Spee, who was nearly forced to leave the Society of Jesus; it outlines the book’s publication, and provides a detailed analysis of the Jesuit prison visits. The book also details Spee’s criticism of prison ministers, as well as his arguments about the guilt or innocence of the imprisoned, tortured and executed women and men of this tragic period in European history." --

Author : Johannes Dillinger
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813928388

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"Evil People" by Johannes Dillinger Pdf

Inspired by recent efforts to understand the dynamics of the early modern witch hunt, Johannes Dillinger has produced a powerful synthesis based on careful comparisons. Narrowing his focus to two specific regions—Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier—he provides a nuanced explanation of how the tensions between state power and communalism determined the course of witch hunts that claimed over 1,300 lives in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany. Dillinger finds that, far from representing the centralizing aggression of emerging early states against local cultures, witch hunts were almost always driven by members of the middling and lower classes in cities and villages, and they were stopped only when early modern states acquired the power to control their localities. Situating his study in the context of a pervasive magical worldview that embraced both orthodox Christianity and folk belief, Dillinger shows that, in some cases, witch trials themselves were used as magical instruments, designed to avert threats of impending divine wrath. "Evil People" describes a two-century evolution in which witch hunters who liberally bestowed the label "evil people" on others turned into modern images of evil themselves. In the original German, "Evil People" won the Friedrich Spee Award as an outstanding contribution to the history of witchcraft.

Author : Lyndal Roper
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933009

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The Witch in the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper Pdf

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.

Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : 9780198736776

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The Astronomer & the Witch by Ulinka Rublack Pdf

In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one that takes us to the heart of his changing world.

Author : Rainer Decker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Church history
ISBN : 081392748X

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Witchcraft and the Papacy by Rainer Decker Pdf

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 Päpste und die Hexen, Witchcraft and the Papacy is based on these newly available materials and traces the role of the papacy in witchcraft prosecutions from medieval times to the eighteenth century. Decker found that although the medieval church did lay the foundation for witch hunts of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, the postmedieval papacy, and the Roman and Spanish Inquisitions, played the same kind of skeptical, restraining role during the height of the witch-hunting frenzy in Germany and elsewhere in Europe as it had in the trial that was the initial focus of his research. Witchcraft and the Papacy overturns a large body of scholarship that confuses the medieval papacy with its markedly skeptical successors, and that mistakenly portrays the papacy as fanning rather than quelling the flames of the witchcraft mania sweeping northern Europe from the mid-sixteenth century onward.

Author : Frank Sobiech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8879413805

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Jesuit Prison Ministry in the Witch Trials of the Holy Roman Empire by Frank Sobiech Pdf

Author : Thomas Ady
Publisher : Theophania Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1770830413

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A Candle in the Dark by Thomas Ady Pdf

The Grand Errour of these latter Ages is ascribing power to Witches, and by foolish imagination of mens brains, without grounds in the Scriptures, wrongfull killing of the innocent under the name of Witches; unto which Idolatry and bloud-guiltiness (being as bad, or worse than the Idolatry of the ancient Heathen) men are led as violently by fond imagination, as were the Ephesians to the worshipping of Diana, and of the Image which (as they blindly thought) fell down from Jupiter, Acts 19. 35. It is reported by Travellers, that some People in America do worship, for a day, the first living Creature they see in the morning, be it but a Bird, or a Worm; this Idolatry is like the Idolatry of this part of the World, who when they are afflicted in Body, or Goods, by Gods hand, they have an eye to some Mouse, or Bugg, or Frog, or other living Creature, saying, It is some Witches Impe that is sent to afflict them, ascribing the Work of God, to a Witch, or any mean Creature rather than to God.

Author : Balthasar Bekker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404184049

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The World Bewitch'd: Or An Examination of the Common Opinions Concerning Spirits by Balthasar Bekker Pdf

Author : David L Bradnick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004350618

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Evil, Spirits, and Possession by David L Bradnick Pdf

In Evil, Spirits, and Possession: An Emergentist Theology of the Demonic David Bradnick suggests that the demonic arises from evolutionary processes and manifests as non-personal emergent forces that influence humans to initiate and execute nefarious activities

Author : Lois Martin
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781849018043

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A Brief History of Witchcraft by Lois Martin Pdf

The witch in history is very different from the image of Harry Potter or the modern day Pagan. A Brief History of Witchcraft sets out to explore how the witch phenomenon began in medieval Europe and how it has continued to haunt us for the next 500 years. In her fascinating history Lois Martin's looks at how folk tradition and religion clashed with devastating effect - one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all and the most brutal regime of persecution ever seen. From early theories of the Devil, a new cosmology of demons and dark arts evolved; deluded old women were transformed into instruments of evil. This culminated in the Witch craze of the 16th and 17th century, which may have claimed the lives of up to 40,000 people.

Author : Friedrich von Spee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Trials (Witchcraft)
ISBN : UCLA:31158010036456

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Cautio criminalis oder rechtliches Bedenken wegen der Hexenprozesse by Friedrich von Spee Pdf

Eine der ersten und wichtigsten Kampfschriften gegen das Unwesen der Hexenprozesse aus dem 17. Jahrhundert.

Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195089400

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Beyond the Double Bind by Kathleen Hall Jamieson Pdf

A breakthrough account of how women can overcome the social binds that block their success. As Kathleen Hall Jamieson explores society's interlaced traps and restrictions, she draws on hundreds of interviews with women from all walks of life to show the ways they can cut through the restrictions.

Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191648830

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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack Pdf

The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.