Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: a documentary history

Introduction: The Problem of European Witchcraft

I. Christianizing the Traditions

1. On Christian Teaching / Augustine

2. Sermon 54 / Caesarius of Arles

3. Etymologies / Isodore of Seville

4. "Roman" Penitential / Halitgar of Cambrai

II. Sorcery in Christendom

5. Warning to Bishops / Regino of Prum

6. Corrector, sive Medicus / Burchard of Worms

7. Didascalicon / Hugh of St. Victor

8. Sorceress of Berkeley / William of Malmesbury

9. Decretum / Master Gratian

10. Policraticus / John of Salisbury

11. Heretics of Rheims / Ralph of Coggeshall

12. Life of St. Justina / Jacobus de Voragine

III. Thomas Aquinas on Sorcery and the Nature of Evil

13. From the Summa contra gentiles

14. From the Summa theologiae

15. From Quodlibet XI

16. From the Commentary on the Four Books of Sentences

17. Mirror of True Penitence / Jacopo Passavanti

IV. Popes, Theologians, Preachers, Lawyers, and Judges

18. Vox in Rama / Pope Gregory IX

19. Sorcery and the Inquisitors / Pope Alexander IV

20. Sorcery and the Inquisitors / William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina

21. Sorcery and the Inquisitors / Pope John XXII

22. Directorium inquisitorum / Nicolau Eymeric

23. Theology Faculty of the University of Paris Condemns Sorcery

24. Bernardino of Siena Preaches Against Women Sorcerers

V. Sect of Diabolical Witches

25. Pope Alexander V to Pontus Fougeyron on New Sects

26. Two Letters on the Pressing Danger / Pope Eugenius IV

27. Formicarius / Johannes Nider

28. Errores Gazariorum

29. Ut magorum et maleficiorum errores / Claude Tholosan

30. Defender of Ladies / Martin Le Franc

31. Scourge for Heretical Witches / Nicholas Jacquier

32. Jehan de la Case Is Pardoned for Killing a Witch-Finder

VI. Hammer of Witches

33. Summis desiderantes affectibus / Pope Innocent VIII

34. Malleus Maleficarum / Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger

35. Pursuit of Witches in Lombardy / Pope Alexander VI

VII. Humanists, Sorcerers, Preachers, and Popes

36. Terrible Case of Sorcery in Orleans / Desiderius Erasmus

37. Die Emeis / Johann Geiler von Kayserberg

38. Strix / Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola

39. On Diabolical Witchcraft / Pope Hadrian VI

VIII. Problem of Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Age of the Reformation

40. Two Kinds of Sorcery and the Reformation / Martin Luther

41. Witchcraft and the Reformation / John Calvin

42. De veneficiis / Lambert Daneau

43. Tratado muy sotil y bien fundado / Martin de Castanega

44. De praestigiis daemonum / Johann Weyer

45. On the Demon-Mania of Witches / Jean Bodin

46. Confessions of the Chelmsford Witches

47. Prosecutions at Trier

48. Prosecutions in Scotland

49. Demonolatry / Nicholas Remy

IX. Witchcraft Prosecutions in the Seventeenth Century

50. Disquisitiones magicarum / Martin Del Rio

51. Masque of Queens / Ben Jonson

52. Trial of Marie Cornu

53. Prosecutions at Bamberg

54. Prosecutions at Wurzburg

55. Prosecutions at Bonn

56. Devils of Loudun

57. Trial of Suzanne Gaudry

58. "A Discourse of Witches" / Cotton Mather

59. Sadducismus Triumphatus / Joseph Glanvill

X. Belief, Skepticism, Doubt, and Disbelief in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries

60. Discoverie of Witchcraft / Reginald Scot

61. "Concerning Cripples" / Michel de Montaigne

62. Political Works / Benedict de Spinoza

63. Spanish Inquisitor on Witchcraft and Evidence / Alonso de Salazar Frias

64. Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes

65. Cautio criminalis / Friedrich Spee

66. Enchanted World / Balthasar Bekker

67. Recantation of the Salem Village Jurors

68. Answer to the Questions of a Provincial / Pierre Bayle

69. Witchcraft and the Law / Christian Thomasius.