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Heresy, Crusade, and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100 - 1250

By: Walter L. Wakefield

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Heresy, Crusade, and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100 - 1250

By: Walter L. Wakefield

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

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0520348222

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Demon Lovers

Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief

By: Walter Stephens

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Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief

By: Walter Stephens

On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.

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0226772624

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The Way it was

Walter Lord on His Life and Books

By: Walter Lord,Jenny Lawrence,Evan Thomas,Robert A. Caro,Thea Karas (book designer.)

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The Way it was

Walter Lord on His Life and Books

By: Walter Lord,Jenny Lawrence,Evan Thomas,Robert A. Caro,Thea Karas (book designer.)

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0615259731

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The Works of Walter Moyle ...: None of Which Were Ever Before Published;

By: Walter Moyle,Thomas Sarjeant

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The Works of Walter Moyle ...: None of Which Were Ever Before Published;

By: Walter Moyle,Thomas Sarjeant

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Heresy, Crusade, and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100 - 1250

Heresy, Crusade, and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100 - 1250

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Demon Lovers

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The Works of Walter Moyle ...: None of Which Were Ever Before Published;

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