Investigations Into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín del Río's Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex

Volume 5
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-44158-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6.5, 774 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1421 g

Reihe: Heterodoxia Iberica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

García Valverde, José Manuel

Maxwell-Stuart, P G

Maxwell-Stuart, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionskritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Note on the Latin Text

Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Book 5: The Third Volume of Investigations into Magic, or, the Suitable Way for Judges and Confessors to Proceed

1 Preliminary Letters

2 Dedicatory Verses

3 Prefatory Remarks

4 Section 1: Should the Usual Legal Manner and Procedure Be Retained When Trying This Crime?

5 Section 2: In the Case of This Crime, How Should an Investigation Be Organised?

6 Section 3: Very Good Circumstantial Evidence Which Means That a Judge Can Proceed Safely to Try This Crime

7 Section 4: Other Less Compelling and Less Certain Pieces of Circumstantial Evidence

8 Section 5: (i) Laying Information against Someone, (ii) Witnesses

9 Section 6: Things Which Usually Take the Place of an Accusation in This Case, and the Accusation Itself

10 Section 7: Arrest and Imprisonment

11 Section 8: Accusation in Court after Imprisonment

12 Section 9: Torture

13 Section 10: Other Ways of Investigating the Truth

14 Section 11: Confessions

15 Section 12: Abjuration

16 Section 13: Canonical Purgation

17 Section 14: Acquittal

18 Section 15: The Nature of Acts of Fortune-Telling [sortilegiorum]. Which of Them Are Conducive to Heresy and Which Are Not?

19 Section 16: The Punishment and Execution of Workers of Harmful Magic

20 Section 17: Books of Magic

21 Section 18: Offering the Eucharist to Those Who Are about to Die

22 Section 19: Should the Corpse Receive Burial?

Appendix 1: Additional Material from Pierre Dheure

Appendix 2: The Reply of Martín Del RÍo of the Society of Jesus to the Questions of a Most Serene Prince about the Way to Proceed against Witches [striges] or Workers of Poisonous Magic [veneficos]

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Maxwell-Stuart, Ph.D. (1994), FRHS, FSAC Scotland, is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. He has widely published on classical subjects and occult sciences, as well as translations including Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).

José Manuel García Valverde, Ph.D. (2004), University of Seville, is Professor of Renaissance Philosophy as well as Greek Classical Thought. He has published critical editions, translations and many articles on the history of Aristotelianism, including Giacomo Zabarella. De rebus naturalibus (Brill, 2015) and Gómez Pereira’s Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).