The Salazar Documents: Inquisitor Alonso de Salazar Frías and Others on the Basque Witch Persecution

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13186-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Spanisch, Band 21, 514 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Reihe: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples

Early in the 17th century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villages were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they had been abducted during the night and taken to a witches’ sabbath. The abducters denounced by the "child-witches" were subjected to violence and illegal torture to wrest confessions from them. A series of eye-witness reports written by a Jesuit, a Bishop, and a Spanish Inquisitor show a surprising lack of interest in the demonological theories of their time, and analyse the phenomenon from its psychological, sociological and anthropological angles. Part One discusses the anatomy of this collective nightmare or dream-epidemic, and provides an introduction to a bilingual edition of the reports in Part Two.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henningsen, Gustav

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Note on Editorial Principles and the Translation
Abbreviations and Conventions
List of Illustrations

PART ONE: THE CONTEXT
The Salazar Documents
The Witchcraft Policy of the Spanish Inquisition
The Return of the Witch-Burning
The Mountains of Navarra
The Basque Witch-Craze
The Interpretation of Witchcraft

PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS
1. The Discovery of Witchcraft
2. The Disclosures of the Jesuit
3. The Recommendations of the Bishop
4. The Instructions of the Inquisition Council
5. The Investigations of Inquisitor Salazar
6. From the Battle over the Witches
7. The Final Resolution

Bibliography
Index (names, places, subjects)

Über Autor(innen)

Gustav Henningsen, MA (1962) in Folklore, Dr. Phil. (1981), University of Copenhagen. Research Director at the Danish Folklore Archives (1962-2002). He is a leading figure in the International Renaissance of Inquisition Studies and his book The Witches' Advocate (1980) on the Spanish inquisitor Salazar has become a classic.