Martin Delrio

Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation

(Author) Jan Machielsen
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Martin Delrio probably never persecuted or met a witchcraft suspect, yet his name is a byword for credulity and cruelty. Jan Machielsen recovers the lost world of Delrio's scholarship set in the context of the Catholic-Reformation, rather than the straitjacket of demonology.

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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780197265802
Publish year:
2015
Publish date:
Feb. 12, 2015

Jan Machielsen

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