The Salazar documents : Insquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frias and others on the Basque witch persecution / edited by Gustav Henningsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henningsen, Gustav.

Series:

Cultures, beliefs, and traditions ; v. 21.

Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, 1382-5364 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Inquisition--Spain--Pais Vasco--Sources.

Inquisition.

Witchcraft--Spain--Pais Vasco--History--17th century--Sources.

Witchcraft.

Salazar Frías, Alfonso de, 1564-1635.

Salazar Frías, Alfonso de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

Spanish

Summary:

Early in the 17th century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villages were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they had been abducted during the night and taken to a witches' sabbath. The abducters denounced by the "child-witches" were subjected to violence and illegal torture to wrest confessions from them. A series of eye-witness reports written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor show a surprising lack of interest in the demonological theories of their time, and analyse the phenomenon from its psychological, sociological and anthropological angles. Part One discusses the anatomy of this collective nightmare or dream-epidemic, and provides an introduction to a bilingual edition of the reports in Part Two.

Contents:

Preface

Note on Editorial Principles and the Translation

Abbreviations and Conventions

List of Illustrations

PART ONE: THE CONTEXT

The Salazar Documents

The Witchcraft Policy of the Spanish Inquisition

The Return of the Witch-Burning

The Mountains of Navarra

The Basque Witch-Craze

The Interpretation of Witchcraft

PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS

1. The Discovery of Witchcraft

2. The Disclosures of the Jesuit

3. The Recommendations of the Bishop

4. The Instructions of the Inquisition Council

5. The Investigations of Inquisitor Salazar

6. From the Battle over the Witches

7. The Final Resolution

Bibliography

Index (names, places, subjects).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-497) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-85936-9

9786610859368

1-4294-2687-X

90-474-0466-1

1-4337-0427-7

OCLC:

191939982

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047404668 DOI