Malleus Maleficarum Book Review
Malleus Maleficarum Latin for “The Hammer of Witches” – Hexenhammer in German. A witch-hunt manual in 1486 was written by Heinrich Kramer. He was one of the (inquisitor of the Catholic Church) along with Jacob Sprenger. Sprenger is also often attributed as an author basically saying that witchcraft did exist. It was submitted to the University on May 9, 1487 for endorsement. In 1490 this book was banned by Pope Paul IV.
By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penalties, the Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches. It served as a guidebook and was designed to aid them in the identification,persecution,and the deaths of witches. It's a way to tell the marks of witches.
Maleficarum means harmful magic, or witchcraft, this manual was used to hammer out such practices. Kramer and Sprenger took the papal bull that appeared in the book's beginning to be the endorsement of the book, but was only to give them authorities as Inquisitors in certain lands. It was not the endorsement of the book Malleus Maleficarum. They were to deal with things such as witchcraft to heresy as Inquisitors. It gave the impression that it was approved by the Pope Innocent VIII, but it wasn't. They called upon Bishop of Strasburg to help …show more content…
Those burned are mostly male witches of the sort described. There be half the city implicated for already professors, law-students, pastors, canons, vicars, and monks have here been arrested and burned. It is a book that is written to help bring out the fact that witchcraft did exist. They burned and tortured people to the confession was reviled, then they killed them it was an awful time to live in. People were scared that they would be next to be called a witch a lot of people died who didn't need
By the 15th century witchcraft had resurfaced and had its penalties, the Malleus was used as a judicial case-book for the detection and persecution of witches. It served as a guidebook and was designed to aid them in the identification,persecution,and the deaths of witches. It's a way to tell the marks of witches.
Maleficarum means harmful magic, or witchcraft, this manual was used to hammer out such practices. Kramer and Sprenger took the papal bull that appeared in the book's beginning to be the endorsement of the book, but was only to give them authorities as Inquisitors in certain lands. It was not the endorsement of the book Malleus Maleficarum. They were to deal with things such as witchcraft to heresy as Inquisitors. It gave the impression that it was approved by the Pope Innocent VIII, but it wasn't. They called upon Bishop of Strasburg to help …show more content…
Those burned are mostly male witches of the sort described. There be half the city implicated for already professors, law-students, pastors, canons, vicars, and monks have here been arrested and burned. It is a book that is written to help bring out the fact that witchcraft did exist. They burned and tortured people to the confession was reviled, then they killed them it was an awful time to live in. People were scared that they would be next to be called a witch a lot of people died who didn't need