Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jacob Sprenger, Heinrich Kramer, Nipple
20 Mar 2016
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Historical background: social and political unrest, host of natural and man-man disasters from. 14 15 century: famine, plague, large scale destructive warfare, financial collapse, papal schism (oh my!, centralization of the church: Survivals of pagan belief, worship and practice were condemned as demonic and gradual suppressed by christian theory and law. The ride by night/ secret nocturnal meetings. Desecration of the eucharist and the crucifix. Written by :dominican inquisitors : heinrich kramer & jacob sprenger. Composed as a handbook and was intended to assist in surveying and eliminating heresy. All later handbooks of witch theory (even those not affiliated with a religious organization) looked back to the malleus as their chief inspiration. First: establishes that disbelief in witches is manifest heresy, offered a census on the effects of witchcraft and explained why it is that women are more likely to be witches. Second: describes typology of witchcraft and a typology for its investigation (forms and remedies)
