Witchcraft & the Papacy: An Account Drawing on the Formerly Secret Records of the Roman Inquisition

by Rainer Decker

When Rainer Decker was researching a sensational seventeenth-century German witchcraft trial, he discovered, much to his surprise, that in this case the papacy functioned as a force of skepticism and restraint. His curiosity piqued, he tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a secret Vatican archive housing the records of the Roman Inquisition that had been sealed to outsiders from its sixteenth-century beginnings. In 1996 Decker was one of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927471
• ISBN13: 9780813927473
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"