Witchcraft and Inquisition in early modern Venice /

Witchcraft and Inquisition in early modern Venice /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Seitz, Jonathan, 1974-
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	xi, 286 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Trials (Witchcraft) -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century. Inquisition -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century. Trials (Witchcraft) -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century. Inquisition -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century. Inquisition. Trials (Witchcraft) Italy -- Venice. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8509729

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ISBN:	9781107011298 (hardback) 1107011299 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.
Summary:	"In early modern Europe, ideas about nature, God, demons, and occult forces were inextricably connected and much ink and blood was spilled in arguments over the characteristics and boundaries of nature and the supernatural. Seitz uses records of Inquisition witchcraft trials in Venice to uncover how individuals across society, from servants to aristocrats, understood these two fundamental categories. Others have examined this issue from the points of view of religious history, the history of science and medicine, or the history of witchcraft alone, but this work brings these sub-fields together to illuminate comprehensively the complex forces shaping early modern beliefs"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transcriptions and Citations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Witchcraft and Inquisition in the Most Serene Republic
2. Blackened Fingernails and Bones in the Bedclothes
3. Appeals to Experts
4. "Spiritual Remedies" for Possession and Witchcraft
5. The Exorcist's Library
6. "Not My Profession": Physicians' Naturalism
7. Physicians as Believers
8. The Inquisitor's Library
9. "Nothing Proven": The Practical Difficulties of Witchcraft Prosecution
Conclusion
Appendix I. Glossary
Appendix II. Selected Venetian Religious Institutions
Bibliography
Index