Romancing Your Wife by Debra White Smith
The Malleus Maleficarum or Hammer of Witches is the best known and the most important treatise on witchcraft. It endorses extermination of witches and for this purpose develops a detailed legal and theological theory. It was a bestseller, second only to the Bible in terms of sales for almost 200 years. It was written by the Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer and first published in 1487. The Malleus elevates sorcery to the criminal status of heresy and prescribes inquisitorial practices for secular courts in order to extirpate witches. The recommended procedures include torture to effectively obtain confessions and the death penalty as the only sure remedy against the evils of witchcraft. At that time, it was typical to burn heretics alive at the stake and the Malleus encouraged the same treatment of witches. The book had a strong influence on culture for several centuries. It was later used by royal courts during the Renaissance, and contributed to the increasingly brutal prosecution of witchcraft during the 16th and 17th centuries.Daniel W. Smith is an Associate Professor in Purdue University's Department of Philosophy and the author of Essays on Deleuze (2012). He co-translated Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and Essays Critical and Clinical by Gilles Deleuze (with Michael A. Greco, 1998), as well as Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (2005) by Pierre Klossowski and Isabelle Stenger's The Creation of Modern Science (2000) by Isabelle Stenger.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780736913010 |
| ISBN 10 | 0736913017 |
| Title | Romancing Your Wife |
| Author | Debra White Smith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvest House Publishers,U.S. |
| Year published | 2005-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 235 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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