HANS DE WAARDT
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | HANS DE WAARDT |
| GIVEN NAMES | HANS |
| FAMILY NAME | DE WAARDT |
| SIGNATURE | DE WAARDT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inflating the Prestige of Demons: Johan Wier’s Role-Playing
In the sixteenth century, witchcraft was generally thought to be a grave danger. Specific people, a majority of them women, were believed to threaten the world as servants of the Devil. In his De praestigiis daemonum , published in 1563, the Dutch / German physician Johan Wier argued that human beings were unable to perform witchcraft and that the women who were accused were innocent but often deluded by demons into believing that they were guilt…
Des communautés mouvantes: Les “sociétés des frères chrétiens” en Rhénanie du Nord: Juliers, Berg, Cologne vers 1530–1694
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe
Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present day, the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of a…
Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials
Witchcraft, Spiritualism, and Medicine: The Religious Convictions of Johan Wier
In 1563 Johan Wier's protest against the criminal prosecution of presumed witches, caused much upheaval. He attempted to exonerate these defendants by arguing that human beings are incapable of doing the things they were accused of. It was demons and not humans who were the real offenders. Until now, Wier's religious convictions have remained indistinct. It is argued here that he refused to choose sides in the religious conflicts of the sixteenth…
Jesuits, Propaganda and Faith Healing in the Dutch Republic
In the 1570s the structure of the Catholic Church had collapsed in the Dutch Republic, but soon after 1580 a process of reconstruction set in. At first exorcism and other types of faith healing were deployed by both secular and regular Catholic clergy. In time the secular clergy became less willing to respond to requests for this type of assistance. The regular clergy and particularly the Jesuits continued, however, to render this service just as…
Jesuits, Propaganda and Faith Healing in the Dutch Republic
In the 1570s the structure of the Catholic Church had collapsed in the Dutch Republic, but soon after 1580 a process of reconstruction set in. At first exorcism and other types of faith healing were deployed by both secular and regular Catholic clergy. In time the secular clergy became less willing to respond to requests for this type of assistance. The regular clergy and particularly the Jesuits continued, however, to render this service just as…
Jesuits, Propaganda and Faith Healing in the Dutch Republic
In the 1570s the structure of the Catholic Church had collapsed in the Dutch Republic, but soon after 1580 a process of reconstruction set in. At first exorcism and other types of faith healing were deployed by both secular and regular Catholic clergy. In time the secular clergy became less willing to respond to requests for this type of assistance. The regular clergy and particularly the Jesuits continued, however, to render this service just as…
Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials
Witchcraft, Spiritualism, and Medicine: The Religious Convictions of Johan Wier
In 1563 Johan Wier's protest against the criminal prosecution of presumed witches, caused much upheaval. He attempted to exonerate these defendants by arguing that human beings are incapable of doing the things they were accused of. It was demons and not humans who were the real offenders. Until now, Wier's religious convictions have remained indistinct. It is argued here that he refused to choose sides in the religious conflicts of the sixteenth…
Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe
Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present day, the authors draw on a broad range of material, from studies of demonologists and reports of a…
Des communautés mouvantes: Les “sociétés des frères chrétiens” en Rhénanie du Nord: Juliers, Berg, Cologne vers 1530–1694
Inflating the Prestige of Demons: Johan Wier’s Role-Playing
In the sixteenth century, witchcraft was generally thought to be a grave danger. Specific people, a majority of them women, were believed to threaten the world as servants of the Devil. In his De praestigiis daemonum , published in 1563, the Dutch / German physician Johan Wier argued that human beings were unable to perform witchcraft and that the women who were accused were innocent but often deluded by demons into believing that they were guilt…
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