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The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft

Theology and Popular Belief

by Hans Peter Broedel

A close study of how Heinrich Kramer's treatise assembled the figure of the diabolical witch out of scholastic theology, inquisitorial experience and village stories of bewitchment. Broedel places the Malleus within late medieval debates rather than treating it as the single cause of the witch-hunts.

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