Witchcraft In Europe 1100-1700: A Documentary History.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973. First US Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. viii + 382pp. Original brown cloth lettered in black on spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations. Index. The first American edition of this important collection of materials and documents on the history of witchcraft, many published for the first time in English. Section I. Witchcraft in Christendom, 1100-1250. Gratian: A warning to bishops, the Canon Episcopi (1140); William of Malmesbury: The witch of Berkeley (1140); John of Salisbury: A Twelfth-Century sceptic (1154); Caesarius of Heisterbach: The demons of the Knight (1120-1235); Ralph of Coggeshall: The witch of Rheims (1176-1180); Pope Gregory IX: The witches of Stedlingerland (1232).
Section II. St. Thomas Aquinas and the nature of evil. From the Summa contra Gentiles: Magic and the world of nature; From the Summa theologica: The demons and man; From Quodlibet XI: Witchcraft and sexual impotence; From the Commentary on the four books of sentences; Witchcraft and Exorcism. Section III. The papacy, the inquisition and the early witch-finders. Pope Alexander IV: Magic and the Inquisition (1258); William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina: Magic and the Inquisition (1320); Pope John XXII: Magic and tien Inquisition (1326); Nicholas Eymeric: Heresy, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition (1376); The Inquisition of Toulouse: The Witches' Sabbath (Fourteenth Century); Pope Eugenius IV: Two letters on the pressing danger (1434-1437); Johannes Nider: The Formicarius, folklore, and theology (1437).
Section IV. The hammer of witches. Pope Innocent VIII: Summis desiderantes, the "Witch-Bull" (1484); Heinrich Kra?mer and Jacob Sprenger: The Malleus Maleficarum (1486); Pope Alexander VI: The pursuit of witches in Lombardy (1501).
Section V. The witch-persecutions of the sixteenth century. Martin Luther: Witchcraft and the Reformation; Jean Calvin: Witchcraft and the Reformation; Jean Bodin: The witches and the law (1580); The persecutions at Trier (1581-1593); The persecution in Scotland (1591); The confessions of the Chelmsford witches, England (1566); Nicholas Re?my: The evidence of witchcraft (1584).
Section VI. Witchcraft in the seventeenth century. The persecution at Bonn; The persecutions at Wu?rzburg 91629); The persecutions at Bamberg (1628); The devils of Loudun (1636); The trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652); Cotton Mather: Witchcraft in North America (1689); Richard Bovet: Demonology and dilettantism (1684); Henry Moore and Joseph Glanvil: Witchcraft and philosophical spiritualism --
Section VII. Scepticism, doubt and disbelief in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reginald Scot: Credulity and witchcraft (1689); Michel de Montaigne: Ignorance and witchcraft; Benedict de Spinoza: Reason, man, and the Devil; Alonso Salazar de Frias: The Grand Inquisitor of Spain on witchcraft and delusion; Thomas Hobbes: Demonology as unsound philosophy; Friedrich Spee: A Jesuit criticizes the persecutions (1631); The recantation of the Salem jurors (1693); Pierre Bayle: Superstition and the imagination; Balthasar Bekker: Rational theology and witchcraft (1691).
Just a hint of shelf wear, lower spine bruised, page edges darkened, owner's blind seal to front blanks, old NYC Weiser bookshop label. Still a tight, clean VG+ copy in G+ dust jacket (Dust jacket laminate lifting, some chipping to surface, top and bottom edges have been reinforced with tape. Now in protective mylar cover). Item #66995
ISBN: 0812276450
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