RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Summis Desiderantes Affectibus
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^^attached to witches (women) having sex with satan. From the 12thc onward we see an increasing fear of the devil among the christian theologians the devil is becoming more active in human affairs and more violent against human beings. An intellectual tradition which focuses academic inquiry on the devil. These fears and concerns about the devil were not very predominant among the lay-people. The accusations of inquisitors construct of the pact infanticide, cannibalism. Accusations from laypeople he killed my cow, made my neighbor sick, etc . Being produced by people whose job it was to hunt heretics. A gradual transformation from sorcery to heresy to diabolical witchcraft . Pact and the collaborative notion of heretics. A pope (gregory the 9th)asserted that secular rulers would have to help point out people who are heretics or witches outlawing heresy spreads to the public laws. The church can take away people"s property.
