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100 1 $aBailey, Michael David,$d1971-
245 10 $aBattling demons :$bwitchcraft, heresy, and reform in the late Middle Ages /$cMichael D. Bailey.
260 $aUniversity Park, Pa. :$bPennsylvania State University Press,$cc2003.
300 $axii, 200 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aThe magic in history series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-195) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Witchcraft, heresy, and reform in the fifteenth century -- The life of Johannes Nider -- Witchcraft in the writings of Johannes Nider -- The threat of heresy : Hussites, free spirits, and beguines -- Reform of the orders, reform of the religious spirit -- The reform of the Christian world : Johannes Nider's Formicarius -- Witchcraft and reform -- Conclusion: Witchcraft and the world of the late Middle Ages -- Appendix I: Chronology of Nider's life and datable works -- Appendix II: Dating of Nider's major works used in this study -- Appendix III: Manuscript copies of Nider's treatises.
520 $a"The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches." So wrote Johan Huizinga more than eighty years ago in his classic Autumn of the Middle Ages. Although Huizinga was correct in his observation, modern readers have tended to focus on the more spectacular witch-hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Nevertheless, it was during the late Middle Ages that the full stereotype of demonic witchcraft developed in Europe, and this is the subject of Battling Demons. At the heart of the story is Johannes Nider (d. 1438), a Dominican theologian and reformer who alternately persecuted heretics and negotiated with them -- a man who was by far the most important church authority to write on witchcraft in the early fifteenth century. Nider was a major source for the infamous Malleus Maleficarum, or Hammer of Witches (1486), the manual of choice for witch-hunters in late medieval Europe. Today Nider's reputation rests squarely on his witchcraft writings, but in his own day he was better known as a leader of the reform movement within the Dominican order and as a writer of important tracts on numerous other aspects of late medieval religiosity, including heresy and lay piety. Battling Demons places Nider in this wider context, showing that for late medieval thinkers, witchcraft was one facet of a much larger crisis plaguing Christian society. --From publisher's description.
600 10 $aNider, Johannes,$dapproximately 1380-1438.
650 0 $aWitchcraft$xHistory$yto 1500.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBailey, Michael David, 1971-$tBattling demons.$dUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2003$w(OCoLC)606916710
830 0 $aMagic in history.
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