Hazards of the Dark Arts - Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic

English translations of two important fifteenth-century writings on witchcraft by Johannes Hartlieb and Ulrich Molitoris. Introduction discusses the writings, the authors, their historical environments, the ways they used sources, and their influence on the development of ideas about witchcraft.

About the author

Richard Kieckhefer is Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University and author of Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Penn State, 1998).

Product details

• Assisted by: Richard Kieckhefer (Translation), Kieckhefer Richard (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780271078403
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07840-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Magic in History Sourcebooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, RELIGION / History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, History of Religion, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance