TY - BOOK
T1 - Investigations into magic
T2 - an edition and translation of Martín Del Río’s 'Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex'
AU - García Valverde, José Manuel
A2 - Maxwell-Stuart, Peter George
PY - 2022/12/15
Y1 - 2022/12/15
N2 - The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río’s panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle. Far from dry scholarship, however, ‘Investigations’ is an engaging, fascinating, earnest conversation between Del Río and his readers and a major contribution to understanding key aspects of everyday sixteenth century behaviour and the problem of evil.
AB - The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río’s panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle. Far from dry scholarship, however, ‘Investigations’ is an engaging, fascinating, earnest conversation between Del Río and his readers and a major contribution to understanding key aspects of everyday sixteenth century behaviour and the problem of evil.
UR - https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9789004441583&rn=1
UR - https://brill.com/display/serial/HDIB
U2 - 10.1163/9789004468955
DO - 10.1163/9789004468955
M3 - Book
SN - 9789004441583
VL - 5
T3 - Heterodoxia Iberica
BT - Investigations into magic
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -