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demonology the study of demons or demonic beliefs How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Werewolves were rare in fifteenth-century demonologies and trials" and the Malleus has "nothing to say about them" (Monter, 151). More significantly, anti-scientific views arise from and reinforce a wider anti-rational mood which has emerged even among academics, accompanied by the growth of post-modernist invisible colleges and the threat to the search for inter-personal knowledge posed by the demonologies of the politically correct. Professor Williams begins with Jean d'Arras's prose history of the fairy nymph Melusine (1393) and moves from there to the magical works of Paracelsus and the demonologies of Heinrich Kramer, Johann Weyer, Jean Bodin (as translated into German by Johann Fischart), and Pierre de Lancre. |
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