Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentation of Renaissance occultism” argued by John Henry and others involved redefining the term “superstition.” At the start of the witch hunt era, superstition was the antonym to religion; by the 1620s, when the witch hunt peaked, Francis Bacon was presenting his new philosophy as the antonym to superstition and its twin idolatry. This change in the signification of superstition was causally linked to the devil, who was both master and goal of all superstition and idolatry. Superstition was redefined and the devil was rethought as aspects of the same process, as critics of the witch hunt concluded that it was superstition to believe the devil could...
Nathan Johnstone looks at the ways in which beliefs about the nature of the Devil and his power in h...
This edition of Oxford, Bodleian, e Mus. 173, ff. 37r-v presents three rituals from late sixteenth-c...
'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or no...
Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentatio...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
The second half of the 16th century marks an unprecedented vogue of demonology. The authors of theol...
Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their ex...
This article deals with selected aspects of popular belief in post-Reformation England as compared ...
This article compares and contrasts England’s first three Witchcraft Acts (1542, 1563, and 1604) wit...
The elaborated concept of witchcraft, one of the intellectual foundations of Early Modern European w...
El presente trabajo se propone analizar la relevancia del concepto de superstición en la Demonología...
As a consequence of its comprehensiveness, The Discoverie of Witchcraft was an invaluable source of ...
Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking...
From the very earliest times, mankind recognized the existence of witchcraft, but, apart from isolat...
Simultaneous with the European witch craze, early modern scholars began to collect the superstitious...
Nathan Johnstone looks at the ways in which beliefs about the nature of the Devil and his power in h...
This edition of Oxford, Bodleian, e Mus. 173, ff. 37r-v presents three rituals from late sixteenth-c...
'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or no...
Using mostly English sources of the witch hunt era, this article demonstrates that the “fragmentatio...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
The second half of the 16th century marks an unprecedented vogue of demonology. The authors of theol...
Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their ex...
This article deals with selected aspects of popular belief in post-Reformation England as compared ...
This article compares and contrasts England’s first three Witchcraft Acts (1542, 1563, and 1604) wit...
The elaborated concept of witchcraft, one of the intellectual foundations of Early Modern European w...
El presente trabajo se propone analizar la relevancia del concepto de superstición en la Demonología...
As a consequence of its comprehensiveness, The Discoverie of Witchcraft was an invaluable source of ...
Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking...
From the very earliest times, mankind recognized the existence of witchcraft, but, apart from isolat...
Simultaneous with the European witch craze, early modern scholars began to collect the superstitious...
Nathan Johnstone looks at the ways in which beliefs about the nature of the Devil and his power in h...
This edition of Oxford, Bodleian, e Mus. 173, ff. 37r-v presents three rituals from late sixteenth-c...
'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or no...