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The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río's panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle. Far from dry scholarship, however, 'Investigations' is an engaging, fascinating, earnest conversation between Del Río and his readers and a major contribution to understanding key aspects of everyday sixteenth century behaviour and the problem of evil.
Contents
Introduction
Note on the Latin Text
Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex
Book 5: The Third Volume of Investigations into Magic, or, the Suitable Way for Judges and Confessors to Proceed
1 Preliminary Letters
2 Dedicatory Verses
3 Prefatory Remarks
4 Section 1: Should the Usual Legal Manner and Procedure Be Retained When Trying This Crime?
5 Section 2: In the Case of This Crime, How Should an Investigation Be Organised?
6 Section 3: Very Good Circumstantial Evidence Which Means That a Judge Can Proceed Safely to Try This Crime
7 Section 4: Other Less Compelling and Less Certain Pieces of Circumstantial Evidence
8 Section 5: (i) Laying Information against Someone, (ii) Witnesses
9 Section 6: Things Which Usually Take the Place of an Accusation in This Case, and the Accusation Itself
10 Section 7: Arrest and Imprisonment
11 Section 8: Accusation in Court after Imprisonment
12 Section 9: Torture
13 Section 10: Other Ways of Investigating the Truth
14 Section 11: Confessions
15 Section 12: Abjuration
16 Section 13: Canonical Purgation
17 Section 14: Acquittal
18 Section 15: The Nature of Acts of Fortune-Telling [sortilegiorum]. Which of Them Are Conducive to Heresy and Which Are Not?
19 Section 16: The Punishment and Execution of Workers of Harmful Magic
20 Section 17: Books of Magic
21 Section 18: Offering the Eucharist to Those Who Are about to Die
22 Section 19: Should the Corpse Receive Burial?
Appendix 1: Additional Material from Pierre Dheure
Appendix 2: The Reply of Martín Del RÍo of the Society of Jesus to the Questions of a Most Serene Prince about the Way to Proceed against Witches [striges] or Workers of Poisonous Magic [veneficos]
Bibliography
Index
