Hazards of the dark arts : advice for medieval princes on witchcraft and magic : Johannes Hartlieb's Book of all forbidden arts (1456) and Ulrich Molitoris's On witches and pythonesses (1489) /
English translations of two important fifteenth-century writings on witchcraft by Johannes Hartlieb and Ulrich Molitoris. Introduction discusses the writings, the authors, their historical environments, the ways they used sources and their influence on the development of ideas about witchcraft.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German and the Latin. |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Magic in history.
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| Summary: | English translations of two important fifteenth-century writings on witchcraft by Johannes Hartlieb and Ulrich Molitoris. Introduction discusses the writings, the authors, their historical environments, the ways they used sources and their influence on the development of ideas about witchcraft. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 158 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271078403 0271078405 |