The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe - How it came about, progressed, and ended.
Date Submitted: 06/13/2003 06:33:52
Category: / History / European History
Length: 3 pages (710 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 3 pages (710 words)
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
During the 13th century, the increasing association of ideas about heresy with ideas about sorcery lead to the development of the concept of witchcraft being devil worship, which paved the way for the witch-hunt in Europe (Monter viii). In 1487, Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, who were serving as inquisitors for Pope Innocent VIII, published the Malleus Maleficarum or "Hammer of Witches". The Malleus had three sections; the first declared …
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