Witchcraft & the Papacy: An Account Drawing on the Formerly Secret Records of the Roman Inquisition
(Part of the Studies in Early Modern German History Series)
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When Rainer Decker was researching a sensational seventeenth-century German witchcraft trial, he discovered, much to his surprise, that in this case the papacy functioned as a force of skepticism and restraint. His curiosity piqued, he tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a secret Vatican archive housing the records of the Roman Inquisition that had been sealed to outsiders from its sixteenth-century beginnings. In 1996 Decker was one of the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813927471
ISBN13:9780813927473
Release Date:November 2008
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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