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The Infected and the Guilty:On Heresy and Witchcraft in Post-Reformation Denmark
- Source :
- Kallestrup, L N 2017, The Infected and the Guilty : On Heresy and Witchcraft in Post-Reformation Denmark . in L Nyholm Kallestrup & R M Toivo (eds), Contesting orthodoxy in medieval and early modern europe : heresy, magic and witchcraft . Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic, pp. 233-254 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32385-5_12
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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Abstract
- Internationaliseret version af dansk artikel This essay investigates the correlation between heresy and witchcraft in a Danish context. In sixteenth-century Denmark theologians, most prominently Niels Hemmingsen, condemned witchcraft by referring to it as heresy and false beliefs. Still, as a consequence of the Lutheran Reformation the Church had no legal influence in the prosecution of witchcraft and related offences. This essay investigates the link between heresy and witchcraft in theological writings, legal regulations and in trials for witchcraft. It argues that although Danish trials for witchcraft were an issue for lay authorities, an analysis of the link between heresy and witchcraft provides new insights in what can be characterized as a ‘trichotomy’ of theologians, legislation and judicial regulations put into practice.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Kallestrup, L N 2017, The Infected and the Guilty : On Heresy and Witchcraft in Post-Reformation Denmark . in L Nyholm Kallestrup & R M Toivo (eds), Contesting orthodoxy in medieval and early modern europe : heresy, magic and witchcraft . Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic, pp. 233-254 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32385-5_12
- Accession number :
- edsair.od......3062..040dabaf7c67890c79798614a0453c60
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32385-5_12