The Malleus Maleficarum / edited and translated by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Early works to 1800.

Witchcraft.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

x, 266 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

Translated from the Latin.

Summary:

"The Malleus Maleficarum" is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. The only previous translation into English, that by Montague Summers produced in 1928, is full of inaccuracies, is written in a style nowadays almost unreadable, and is unfortunately colored by his personal agenda. This edited translation, with an introductory essay setting witchcraft, Institoris, and the Malleus into clear, readable English, corrects Summers' s mistakes and offers a lean, unvarnished version of what Institoris actually wrote. It will undoubtedly become the standard translation of this important and controversial late-medieval text.

Contents:

Part I

Part II

Part III.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-260) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780719064425

0719064422

0719064430

9780719064432

OCLC:

71238959