Martin Delrio : demonology and scholarship in the Counter-Reformation / by Jan Machielsen.

First edition.

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2015.

©2015.

x, 441 pages, 2 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Recovers the wider scholarship of Jesuit Martin Delrio (1551-1608), beyond his Disquisitiones magicae, revealing his influence on early modern cultural, religious, and intellectual history, despite his later reputation for credulity and cruelty as attitudes towards witchcraft changed.

Demonology and scholarship in the Counter-Reformation.

English

July 20, 2016

British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-434) and index.