Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Malleus Maleficarum, Relies on past authority to support current arguments…
Malleus Maleficarum
Chrysostom and women
Natural temptation
Desirable disaster
Necessary evil
Danger in the home
Inescapable punishment
Delightful detriment
Enemy of friendship
An evil of nature
Accused of...
Remove men's penises
Change men into beasts
Impede the procreative force
Cause miscarriages
Divert men to irregular love
Offer newborn babies to demons
Wildly popular book 1487-1519
Two writers
Dominican Friars
reprinted 12 times
Defined witchcraft for generations
Aka
The Hammer of Witches
Lasted for centuries influencing identification of witchcraft + its prosecution
3 sections
Witches' deeds
Prosecution of witches
proves the existence of witchcraft
Emphasis on midwives
Interesting
Use herbs and common plants to help women with gynecological problems
Coerced by demons
Concepts of the book challenged
Beg of scientific revolution
Two books (Copernicus + Andreas Vesalius)
Middle 16th century
Different concept of witchcraft
Grounded in Satanism
Demons working with witches
Who?
Women
Many of them: Midwives
Relies on past authority to support current arguments