HIS389H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Saducismus Triumphatus, Joseph Glanvill
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1960s-1990s scholarly work on witchcraft was focused on the trial records. A lot of minute local work on manuscript records not a lot of attention paid to demonology, fun of working with records people have not looked at for hundreds of years. Historians have paid more attention to demonologists and what drove the trials. Trying to pull out common features of demonological tracts and differences . We know the demonologists: those writing about witchcraft, began prior to printing press, Ex: tholsan, in order that the errors of the magicians and sorcerers be made evident (1430s) Serious writing about demonology was monopolized by people like nider and tholsan (university educated men, theologians, lawyers, eventually medical doctors, write in. Latin, vernacular, occasional territorial ruler gianfresco pico della mirandola 1523) James vi demonology originally written in lowlands scots. Exchanges among university educated produce the elaborated concept or cumulative: Vernacular definitions latin translated into vernacular city chronicles.
