Est insolitum inquirere taliter : Latin and German documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck / Christopher S. Mackay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackay, Christopher S., 1962- author.

Series:

Studies in Central European histories ; Volume 68.

Studies in Central European Histories ; Volume 68

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Trials (Witchcraft)--Austria--Early works to 1800.

Trials (Witchcraft).

Witchcraft--Early works to 1800.

Witchcraft.

Criminal procedure (Canon law)--Early works to 1800.

Criminal procedure (Canon law).

Demonology--Early works to 1800.

Demonology.

Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505. Malleus maleficarum.

Institoris, Heinrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Language Note:

In Latin and English language.

Summary:

"This is the companion volume to the author's "An Unusual Inquisition": Translated Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck (Brill, 2020), and contains a full edition of the Latin and German documents illustrating Heinricus Institoris's activities as prosecutor of witchcraft in Ravensburg in 1484 and Innsbruck in 1485. These events had a great influence on Institoris's composition of the Malleus Maleficarum, the most famous and influential early-modern textbook on witchcraft. This is the only full and complete edition of these documents, some of which have not previously been published in their entirety, and the texts greatly illuminate the historical setting of the composition of one of history's most notorious books"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Letter from the burgermasters and City Council of Ravensburg to Archduke Sigismund of Austria, December 17, 1484

Guarantee of good behavior (Urfehde), Ravensburg, October 23, 1484

Instruction from Bishop Georg of Brixen to his ecclesiastical subordinates, July 23, 1485

Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, September 21, 1485

Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to Archduke Sigismund, September 21, 1485

Letter from Archduke Sigismund of Austria to Bishop Georg of Brixen, October 8, 1485

Letter of Biship Georg of Brixen to Sigismund Sämer, parish priest in Axams, undated (mid-October, 1485)

Vernacular protocol

Latin protocols against the seven accused women

Latin articles of suspected crimes and list of questions for further investigation of the seven suspects after their release

Record of the proceedings against the seven accused women, October 29-31 and November 3, 1485

Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, November 14, 1485

Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to an unnamed parish priest in Innsbruck, November 14, 1485

Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Brother Nicolas, February 9, 1486

Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, February 9, 1486

The Brixen memorandum.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-45476-4

OCLC:

1233024222