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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: The Problem of European Witchcraft | |
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| Christianizing the Traditions | |
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| Augustine: On Christian Teaching | |
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| Caesarius of Arles: Sermon 54 | |
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| Isidore of Seville, Etymologies | |
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| Halitgar of Cambrai: The "Roman" Penitential | |
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| Sorcery in Christendom | |
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| Regino of Prum: A Warning to Bishops | |
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| Burchard of Worms: The Corrector, sive Medicus | |
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| Hugh of St. Victor: The Didascalicon | |
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| William of Malmesbury: The Sorceress of Berkeley | |
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| Master Gratian: The Decretum | |
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| John of Salisbury: The Policraticus | |
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| Ralph of Coggeshall: The Heretics of Rheims | |
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| Jacobus de Voragine: The Life of St. Justina | |
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| Thomas Aquinas on Sorcery and the Nature of Evil | |
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| From the Summa contra gentiles | |
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| From the Summa theologiae | |
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| From Quodlibet XI | |
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| From the Commentary on the Four Books of Sentences | |
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| Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence | |
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| Popes, Theologians, Preachers, Lawyers, and Judges | |
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| Pope Gregory IX: Vox in Rama | |
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| Pope Alexander IV: Sorcery and the Inquisitors | |
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| William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina: Sorcery and the Inquisitors | |
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| Pope John XXII: Sorcery and the Inquisitors | |
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| Nicolau Eymeric: The Directorium inquisitorum | |
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| The Theology Faculty of the University of Paris Condemns Sorcery | |
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| Bernardino of Siena Preaches Against Women Sorcerers | |
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| The Sect of Diabolical Witches | |
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| Pope Alexander V to Pontus Fougeyron on New Sects | |
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| Pope Eugenius IV: Two Letters on the Pressing Danger | |
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| Johannes Nider: The Formicarius | |
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| The Errores Gazariorum | |
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| Claude Tholosan: Ut magorum et maleficiorum errores | |
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| Martin Le Franc: The Defender of Ladies | |
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| Nicholas Jacquier: A Scourge for Heretical Witches | |
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| Jehan de la Case Is Pardoned for Killing a Witch-Finder | |
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| The Hammer of Witches | |
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| Pope Innocent VIII: Summis desiderantes affectibus | |
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| Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger: The Malleus Maleficarum | |
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| Pope Alexander VI: The Pursuit of Witches in Lombardy | |
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| Humanists, Sorcerers, Preachers, and Popes | |
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| Desiderius Erasmus: A Terrible Case of Sorcery in Orleans | |
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| Johann Geiler von Kayserberg: Die Emeis | |
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| Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola: Strix | |
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| Pope Hadrian VI: On Diabolical Witchcraft | |
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| The Problem of Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Age of the Reformation | |
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| Martin Luther: The Two Kinds of Sorcery and the Reformation | |
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| John Calvin: Witchcraft and the Reformation | |
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| Lambert Daneau: De veneficiis | |
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| Martin de Castanega, Tratado muy sotil y bien fundado | |
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| Johann Weyer: De praestigiis daemonum | |
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| Jean Bodin: On the Demon-Mania of Witches | |
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| The Confessions of the Chelmsford Witches | |
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| The Prosecutions at Trier | |
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| The Prosecutions in Scotland | |
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| Nicholas Remy, Demonolatry | |
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| Witchcraft Prosecutions in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Martin Del Rio: Disquisitiones magicarum | |
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| Ben Jonson: The Masque of Queens | |
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| The Trial of Marie Cornu | |
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| The Prosecutions at Bamberg | |
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| The Prosecutions at Wurzburg | |
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| The Prosecutions at Bonn | |
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| The Devils of Loudun | |
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| The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry | |
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| Cotton Mather: "A Discourse on Witches" | |
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| Joseph Glanvill: Sadducismus Triumphatus | |
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| Belief, Skepticism, Doubt, and Disbelief in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Reginald Scot: Discoverie of Witchcraft | |
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| Michel de Montaigne: "Concerning Cripples" | |
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| Benedict de Spinoza: The Political Works | |
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| Alonso de Salazar Frias: A Spanish Inquisitor on Witchcraft and Evidence | |
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| Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan | |
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| Friedrich Spee: Cautio criminalis | |
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| Balthasar Bekker: The Enchanted World | |
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| The Recantation of the Salem Village Jurors | |
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| Pierre Bayle: Answer to the Questions of a Provincial | |
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| Christian Thomasius: Witchcraft and the Law | |
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| Acknowledgments | |