MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherEndeavor Books/Mountain States Litho
ISBN-10856202239X
ISBN-139788562022395
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038667623
Product Key Features
Educational LevelAdult & Further Education
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameZ
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFundamentalism, Agriculture / General, Occultism, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorHeinrich Kramer
Subject AreaReligion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Technology & Engineering, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceAdult Education
Dewey Decimal133.4
SynopsisAlso known as "The Witch Hammer," The Malleus Maleficarum was a handbook for hunting and punishing witches-written by Inquisitors HEINRICH KRAMER (c. 1430-1505), an Alsatian clergyman, and JAMES SPRENGER (c. 1436-1494), a Swiss monk-to assist the Inquisition and Church in exterminating undesirables. Mostly a compilation of superstition and folklore, the book was taken very seriously at the time it was written in the 15th century and became a kind of spiritual law book used by judges to determine the guilt of the accused. While some of the articles covered in "The Witch Hammer" are humorous to modern audiences, they were a matter of life and death in the mid-1400's. Anyone interested in religion, the Inquisition, or the witch hunts that ravaged Europe will find this 1928 translation, by MONTAGUE SUMMERS (1880-1948), an unbelievable and enlightening read.
