«NELLE MANI DEL DEMONIO PER MOLTO TEMPO...»: Superstizione e inquisizione nella seconda metà del xvi secolo = "IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL FOR A LONG TIME ...": Superstition and inquisition in the second half of the 16th century.
This essay highlights how the Roman inquisition and the Roman Church deal with superstition and witchcraft in early modern Italy. Through some inquisitorial sources held in Crema (and neglected) and some ecclesiastical documents, we can find out different strategies to rule and to punish convicted m...
| Subtitles: | "IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL FOR A LONG TIME ...": Superstition and inquisition in the second half of the 16th century |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Ed. Morcelliana
2021
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| In: |
Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
Year: 2021, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-140 |
| Further subjects: | B
Counter-Reformation
B inquisizione B Superstition B Superstizione B Inquisition B Controriforma B Ecclesiastical Law |
| Summary: | This essay highlights how the Roman inquisition and the Roman Church deal with superstition and witchcraft in early modern Italy. Through some inquisitorial sources held in Crema (and neglected) and some ecclesiastical documents, we can find out different strategies to rule and to punish convicted magicians and witches. Some differences rely on gender issues. Those outcomes allow us to evaluate some historiographical ipothesis in a comparative light. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
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