By Andrew Colin Gow,Robert B. Desjardins,François V. Pageau

ISBN-10: 0271071281

ISBN-13: 9780271071282

This is the 1st entire and obtainable English translation of 2 significant resource texts—Tinctor’s Invectives and the nameless Recollectio—that arose from the infamous Arras witch hunts and trials within the mid-fifteenth century in France. those writings, by way of the “Anonymous of Arras” (believed to be the trial pass judgement on Jacques du Bois) and the highbrow Johannes Tinctor, provide worthy eyewitness views on one of many first actual mass trials and persecutions of alleged witches in eu heritage. extra importantly, they supply a window onto the early improvement of witchcraft concept and demonology in western Europe throughout the past due medieval period—an whole iteration ahead of the notorious Witches’ Hammer seemed.

Perfect for the study room, The Arras Witch Treatises encompasses a reader-friendly advent situating the treatises and trials of their old and highbrow contexts. students, scholars, and others drawn to the occult will locate those translations invaluable.

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