Demonology and the less-than-human worlds of Late Medieval European Witchcraft: geo-demonological imaginaries in the Malleus Maleficarum.
The figure of the demonic witch has a looming presence in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. That said, this more-than-human being that held force throughout the years of the great European witch-hunts arrived belatedly, emerging from trials for heresy and sorcery conducted in Western Europe and...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 142; no. 1/2; pp. 52 - 76 |
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