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Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath (Paperback)
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Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath (Paperback)
Series: Magic in History Sourcebooks
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Loot Price R551
Discovery Miles 5 510
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While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of
witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping
demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as
part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an
innovation of the early fifteenth century. The sources collected in
this book reveal this concept in its formative stages. The idea
that witches were members of organized heretical sects or part of a
vast diabolical conspiracy crystalized most clearly in a handful of
texts written in the 1430s and clustered geographically around the
arc of the western Alps. Michael D. Bailey presents accessible
English translations of the five oldest surviving texts describing
the witches’ sabbath and of two witch trials from the period.
These sources, some of which were previously unavailable in English
or available only in incomplete or out-of-date translations, show
how perceptions of witchcraft shifted from a general belief in
harmful magic practiced by individuals to a conspiratorial and
organized threat that led to the witch hunts that shook northern
Europe and went on to influence conceptions of diabolical
witchcraft for centuries to come. Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath
makes freshly available a profoundly important group of texts that
are key to understanding the cultural context of this dark chapter
in Europe’s history. It will be especially valuable to those
studying the history of witchcraft, medieval and early modern legal
history, religion and theology, magic, and esotericism.
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