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Johann Wier - Debating the Devil and Witches in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Johann Wier - Debating the Devil and Witches in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Renaissance History, Art and Culture
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This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in
16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed. It was
the physician and scholar Johann Wier (1515-1588) who challenged
the dominant idea. For his defense of witches, more than three
centuries later, Sigmund Freud chose to put Wier's work among the
ten books to be read. According to Wier, Satan seduced witches,
thus they did not deserve to be executed, but they must be cured
for their melancholy. When the witch hunt was rising, Wier was the
first to use some of the arguments adopted in the emerging debate
on religious tolerance in defence of witches. This is the first
overall study of Wier which offers an innovative view of his
thought, by highlighting Wier's sources and his attempts to involve
theologians, physicians, and philosophers in his fight against
cruel witch hunts. Johann Wier: Debating the Devil and Witches
situates and explains his claim as a result of a moral and
religious path as well as the outcome of his medical experience.
The book aims to provide an insightful examination of Wier's works
to read his pleas emphasizing the duty of every good Christian to
not abandon anyone who strays from the flock of Christ. For these
reasons, Wier was overwhelmed by bitter confutations, such as those
of Jean Bodin, but he was also celebrated for his outstanding and
prolific heritage for debating religious tolerance.
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