Add to ORKGIn 1610s, the province of Östergötland would become the scene of the first large-scale witch-hunts in early modern Sweden. Traditionally, these persecutions and trials have been taken as examples of how magical practices were indiscriminately rejected by orthodox clergymen, who strived to root out not only the ‘popish leaven’ among their congregations, but all ‘superstition’ wherewith the devil strived to deceive humankind. In contemporary texts, it is also possible to see how the clergy regarded themselves as the soldiers of God, fighting against the demonic forces that lured Christian people into apostasy in the final age. Yet as is discussed in this paper, the ‘orthodox’ view on magic, exemplified by the writings of the clergyman Ericus ...
Using the basis for later stereotypes of witchcraft, in particular 15th century demonology and early...
The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches. So wrote Joh...
This article compares and contrasts England’s first three Witchcraft Acts (1542, 1563, and 1604) wit...
In 1610s, the province of Östergötland would become the scene of the first large-scale witch-hunts i...
This article enhances our understanding of the development and dynamism of early modern witch stereo...
Extensive witchcraft trials took place in Sweden between the years 1668 and 1676. Approximately thre...
In Christian Europe, witches are usually spoken about in the context of inquisition and court. The c...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit ...
17th-century Lutheranism has taken up certain medieval mystical traditions, and various interpretati...
In May 1675, the local court in the northern Swedish parish of Nordingrå, which had approximately 1,...
People in 16th-century Germany showed great interest in celestial Wunderzeichen (wonder-signs) such ...
As the era of Christianity is taking a firm foothold of Europe and Scandinavia during the late 1500s...
Thomas Stapleton’s influential 1594 oration “Why Has Magic Grown Today Together with Heresy?” delive...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit ...
Using the basis for later stereotypes of witchcraft, in particular 15th century demonology and early...
The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches. So wrote Joh...
This article compares and contrasts England’s first three Witchcraft Acts (1542, 1563, and 1604) wit...
In 1610s, the province of Östergötland would become the scene of the first large-scale witch-hunts i...
This article enhances our understanding of the development and dynamism of early modern witch stereo...
Extensive witchcraft trials took place in Sweden between the years 1668 and 1676. Approximately thre...
In Christian Europe, witches are usually spoken about in the context of inquisition and court. The c...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit ...
17th-century Lutheranism has taken up certain medieval mystical traditions, and various interpretati...
In May 1675, the local court in the northern Swedish parish of Nordingrå, which had approximately 1,...
People in 16th-century Germany showed great interest in celestial Wunderzeichen (wonder-signs) such ...
As the era of Christianity is taking a firm foothold of Europe and Scandinavia during the late 1500s...
Thomas Stapleton’s influential 1594 oration “Why Has Magic Grown Today Together with Heresy?” delive...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit ...
Using the basis for later stereotypes of witchcraft, in particular 15th century demonology and early...
The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches. So wrote Joh...
This article compares and contrasts England’s first three Witchcraft Acts (1542, 1563, and 1604) wit...