Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Witchcraft
A Reappraisal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16614657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vera Hoorens (0000-0002-4855-9861, KU Leuven, corresponding author), Johannes Renders (0000-0002-2254-0716), Hans Renders |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-18 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/scj23210753 |
| OpenAlex | W2519073608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The German scholar Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) is portrayed as an opponent of witch beliefs and witch trials. However, the evidence for this image is less convincing than once thought. Agrippa's involvement in a witch trial in the city of Metz was dictated by his position as a legal advisor to the magistrate and perhaps also inspired by personal animosity towards the local inquisitor, Nicolas Savin. The favorable views of women Agrippa allegedly expressed in De nobilitate et praecellentia foemeneï sexus do not imply that he opposed witch trials. In addition, it is unlikely that Agrippa wrote the treatise Adversus lamiarum inquisitores that was once attributed to him. His De occulta philosophia libri tres and particularly De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium even show that Agrippa endorsed elements of the cumulative witch concept and that he supported the punishment of witches
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Magistrate · Punishment (psychology · Witch · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |