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The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by
authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also
presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of
context, and is not generally representative of late medieval
learned thinking. This, the first book-length study of the original
text in English, provides students and scholars with an
introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual word
of its authors. Like all witch-theorists, Institoris and Sprenger
constructed their witch out of a constellation of pre-existing
popular beliefs and learned traditions. Therefore, to understand
the Malleus, one must also understand the contemporary and
subsequent debates over the reality and nature of witches. This
book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic
text, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore
remained influential long after alternatives were forgotten.
Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has
important implications for fifteenth-century witchcraft theory.
This is a fascinating work on the Malleus Maleficarum and will be
essential to students and academics of late medieval and early
modern history, religion and witchcraft studies. -- .
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