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Witchcraft in literary texts: the case of the "Malleus Maleficarum" [PDF]
Revista de Filología Románica, 2017 This article will try to deepen in witchcraft as a literary motif and, therefore, in its presence in fictional texts. As the references to witches and black sabbaths in the Spanish literature are just a few in the centuries when the witch hunt reached ...
Eva Lara Alberola
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Community mental health care [PDF]
Ghana Medical Journal, 2019 Worldwide, mental health care has gone through four eras and four revolutions: The era of the Dark Ages of superstition when mental illnesses were thought to be an affliction of the spiritual world.
Akwasi O. Osei
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Valproate in conversion disorder: a case report. [PDF]
Case Rep Med, 2010 Few data are in literature about the pharmacological treatment of conversion disorder and there are not any studies about the use of Valproate extended release (ER) in treating conversion disorder. In this article, we are reporting a case of an Italian woman with a diagnosis of conversion disorder treated effectively and quickly by Valproate ER.
Messina A, Fogliani AM.
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014 The Malleus Maleficarum or Hammer of Witches (Krämer y Sprenger 1487) is a text that influenced the violation of human rights of women in the past, written with the aim of subjugating those who did not fit in religious or moral of the prevailing ...
Luis Alfonso Fajardo Sanchez
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Re‐examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 252-273, May 2023., 2023 This article offers a reanalysis of Hrabanus’ mid‐ninth‐century text De magicis artibus. Often read and studied as a complete work, the De magicis artibus is in fact one portion of a longer text that also discusses incest and marriage practices. Furthermore, the single surviving copy of the text is deliberately attached to another work by Hrabanus, his
Matthew B. Edholm
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Representaciones visuales de la magia renacentista
Boletín de Arte, 2023 El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar una serie de representaciones pictóricas renacentistas con el fin de indagar tanto en su poder para legitimar cierto pensamiento mágico —nos centraremos en su deriva astrológica—, como, sobre todo, para ...
Betsabé Pap
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The historical witch in contemporary young adult literature
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 86-98, April 2021., 2021 This article conducts a comparative analysis of Les orangers de Versailles (2000) by French novelist Annie Pietri and Die Hexenkinder von Seulberg (2003) by German novelist Uschi Flacke. It examines how these two current young adult novels explore the subject of the early modern witch in general and how they treat the references of the past in ...
Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
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The inquisitor and his readers: the case of the Malleus maleficarum
Bibliothecae.it, 2023 Starting from the case of the best-known manual of demonology published in the modern age, the Malleus maleficarum by Heinrich Krmer and Joakob Sprenger published for the first time in Strasbourg between 1486 and 1487, the paper studies the presence of ...
Paola Zito
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Proctor assigned to Prüss at Strassburg. The Library of Congress copy is prefixed by 3 leaves, apparently designed for the book and printed by Schoeffer, containing Innocent VIII's bull against heresy (9 Dec. 1484) and the approbation of the University of Cologne (19 May 1487); see Libri 13 (1963-64) pp. 137-41.
Institoris, Heinrich, Sprenger, Jakob
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On the confessional uses and history of witchcraft: Thomas Stapleton's 1594 witchcraft oration [PDF]
, 2018 Thomas Stapleton’s influential 1594 oration “Why Has Magic Grown Today Together with Heresy?” delivered to an audience of Catholic theologians at the University of Leuven is well known to historians of the early modern witch-hunt, particularly for the ...
Machielsen, Jan
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