Primary Source Analysis of Malleus Maleficarum

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.309How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Malleus Maleficarum; Witchcraft; Free Will

Abstract

This work conducts a systematic analysis of Malleus Maleficarum to understand medieval witchcraft. The analysis was divided into four parts. The first part is the introduction about the author Heinrich Kramer’s and Jacob Sprenger’s background, intention, and how their identities as members of Dominican Orders affected their writing. The second part provides the context within which the work was written and discussed how the geographic and social factors affected the content of the work. The third part explains several key terms to understand the text. The fourth part narrows the focus to the chapter discussing the relation between the god and witchcraft, displaying the position of religion and witchcraft in contemporary people’s mind and the connection between the two.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Danli Wei
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Primary Source Analysis of Malleus Maleficarum
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1827
EP  - 1830
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.309
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.309
ID  - Wei2021
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