That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

Something to keep in mind is that witch trials were a means by which political leaders seized property from widows. Greed was an important driving force in the spread of the trials. Click to ...

The Malleus Maleficarum, or The Hammer of Witches, is one of the best-known texts on how to identify a witch and how to ...

Researchers at the Santa Fe Institute found that the printing and dissemination of manuals on witch hunting, particularly the ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486–7, is the standard medieval text ...

The Malleus Maleficarum is the most famous early modern text on witches and witch hunting. Often known as the 'Hammer of Witches', the Malleus consists of a demonstration of the existence of ...

3. There was a best-selling handbook on how to hunt witches Malleus Maleficarum (which meant the Hammer of Witches) was published in 1487 by a German monk called Heinrich Kramer. It argued that ...