"Accuser of Brothers": A Polish Anti-Demonological Tract and its Self-Defeating Rhetoric

Polish historiography has celebrated the Czarownica powołana [The Denounced Witch] without studying it very closely, treating its author as a heroic, skeptical, enlightened voice crying out against the witch-trials of Poland-Lithuania. But the anonymous author was probably a Jesuit priest, and indub...

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Main Author: Ostling, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2020]
In: Reformation & Renaissance review
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 218-237
Further subjects:B Counter-Reformation
B Demonology
B Witchcraft
B Superstition
B Heresy
B Poland
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