Textbook Notes for Philosophy 2006 at Western University

CRIMES WITHOUT CRIMINALS WitchcraftIts Control in Renaissance EuropeCurrieSociological study of deviant behaviour has begun to focus less on the deviant and more on societys response to him Many elements of the behaviour s...

KLAITSChapter 5 Classic AccusersThe PossessedDemonic possession became a leading theme in witchcraft trials of the ththlate 1617 c In the gospelsJesus cures individuals possessed by unclean spiritsMiddle Agesstories of peo...

KP 33Pope Innocent VIII Summis Desiderantes Affectibus 1484Innocent VIIIBecame Pope in August 1484Basically this document was an official document stating that the Pope has political power over all regions and all heretica...

KP 34KramerSprenger Malleus Maleficarum Part IIIPart IDisbelief in witchcraft is heretical witches are primarily women Part IIEvidence characteristics of witches ways to investigate witchcraft Part IIIDetails about legal p...

KP 56The Devils of Loudun 1636Urbain Grandier a priest of Loudunconvicted of witchcraft tortured and burned at the stake in 1636 for having bewitched the local convent of Ursuline nuns Context machinations pathology and ul...

KP 45Jean Bodin On The DemonMania of Witches 1580Bodin questioned the justice and legitimacy of the witchhuntandexecution enemy of allOn The Punishment That Witches Merit2 ways in which states are maintained in their statu...

LAWSPUNISHMENTSRosenBrief spasms of intense persecution during periods of public anxiety 1640s regular courts were suspended and England had a selfappointed Witchfinder General On average 4 out of 5 of those accused were a...

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