Est Insolitum Inquirere Taliter

Latin and German Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45148-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Latin, Band 68, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

This is the companion volume to the author's “An Unusual Inquisition”: Translated Documents from Heinricus Institoris’s Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck (Brill, 2020), and contains a full edition of the Latin and German documents illustrating Heinricus Institoris's activities as prosecutor of witchcraft in Ravensburg in 1484 and Innsbruck in 1485. These events had a great influence on Institoris's composition of the Malleus Maleficarum, the most famous and influential early-modern textbook on witchcraft. This is the only full and complete edition of these documents, some of which have not previously been published in their entirety, and the texts greatly illuminate the historical setting of the composition of one of history's most notorious books.

Autoren/Hrsg.

S MacKay, Christopher

Mackay, Christopher S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

List of the Documents

Note on Editorial Practices

Bibliography

Texts

1 Letter from the Burgermasters and City Council of Ravensburg to Archduke Sigismund of Austria, December 17, 1484

2 Guarantee of Good Behavior (Urfehde), Ravensburg, October 23, 1484

3 Instruction from Bishop Georg of Brixen to His Ecclesiastical Subordinates, July 23, 1485

4 Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, September 21, 1485

5 Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to Archduke Sigismund, September 21, 1485

6 Letter from Archduke Sigismund of Austria to Bishop Georg of Brixen, October 8, 1485

7 Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Sigismund Sämer, Parish Priest in Axams, Undated (Mid-October, 1485)

8 Vernacular Protocol

9 Latin Protocols against the Seven Accused Women

10 Latin Articles of Suspected Crimes and List of Questions for Further Investigation of the Seven Suspects after Their Release

11 Record of the Proceedings against the Seven Accused Women, October 29–31 and November 3, 1485

12 Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, November 14, 1485

13 Letter from Bishop Georg of Brixen to an Unnamed Parish Priest in Innsbruck, November 14, 1485

14 Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Brother Nicolas, February 9, 1486

15 Letter of Bishop Georg of Brixen to Institoris, February 9, 1486

16 The Brixen Memorandum

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher S. Mackay (PhD, Harvard, 1994) is a Professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. He has written on Roman history and published an edition and translation of the Malleus Maleficarum.