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Cover illustration: Page 121 of Diebold Schilling’s Eidgenössische Chronik, which was completed in 1513 and depicts the execution of one Anna Vögtlin in Willisau in 1447. Her crime was to have stolen communion wafers for medicinal/magical purposes.
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Names: Mackay, Christopher S., 1962- editor.
Title: Est insolitum inquirere taliter : Latin and German documents from Heinricus Institoris’s witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck / [edited] by Christopher S. Mackay.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Studies in central European histories, 1547-1217 ; volume 68 | “The translations [into English] of these texts appears in a companion volume in this Brill series, and the present edition of the original texts follows the order of the texts as they appear in the translation”–Introduction. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020058161 (print) | LCCN 2020058162 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004451483 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004454767 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505. Malleus maleficarum. | Witchcraft–Early works to 1800. | Demonology–Early works to 1800. | Criminal procedure (Canon law)–Early works to 1800. | Trials (Witchcraft)–Austria–Early works to 1800.
Classification: LCC BF1569.I5723 E88 2021 (print) | LCC BF1569.I5723 (ebook) | DDC 133.4/3–dc23
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ISSN 1547-1217
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