An Unusual Inquisition: Translated Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck

By Christopher S. Mackay

Heinricus Institoris is the major author of the Malleus Maleficarum, the best known early-modern textbook on witchcraft. This work was heavily influenced by Institoris's activities as inquisitor in Ravensburg in 1484 and Innsbruck in 1485. This volume contains the only complete translations of a large number of documents pertaining to these inquisitions, and is a companion to a new (and the only complete) edition of these texts, which shed much light on the composition of the Malleus Maleficarum in general.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004423788
• ISBN13: 9789004423787
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 312 Pages